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tête-à-tête
[ tet-uh-tet, teyt-uh-teyt; French te-ta-tet ]
noun
- a private conversation or interview, usually between two people.
- Also called vis-à-vis. a sofa shaped like an S so two people are able to converse face to face.
adjective
- of, between, or for two persons together without others.
adverb
- (of two persons) together in private:
to sit tête-à-tête.
tête-à-tête
/ ˌteɪtəˈteɪt /
noun
- a private conversation between two people
- ( as modifier )
a tête-à-tête conversation
- a small sofa for two people, esp one that is S-shaped in plan so that the sitters are almost face to face
adverb
- intimately; in private
tête-à-tête
- An intimate meeting or conversation between two individuals. From French, meaning “head to head.”
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Example Sentences
The latter concluded from their frequent tete-a-tete at the piano and in corners that some love-making was going on between them.
We are shut up together, tete-a-tete, which is so much the better or so much the worse.
Our walks, tete-a-tete, on the outside of the city, where I magnificently spent eight or ten sous in each guinguette.
One evening after having supped tete-a-tete we went to walk in the garden by a fine moonlight.
There was silence, a longer silence than usually occurred in tete-a-tete dinners between Lord and Lady Roehampton.
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