dos-à-dos

American  

[doh-see-doh, -zi-, doh-za-doh] / ˈdoʊ siˈdoʊ, -zɪ-, doʊ zaˈdoʊ /

noun

plural

dos-à-dos

1. do-si-do.

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verb (used with or without object)

dos-à-dosed, dos-à-dosing

1. to do-si-do.

adverb

1. Archaic. back to back.

dos-à-dos British  

/ ˌdəʊsɪˈdəʊ, dozado /

noun

1. a seat on which the users sit back to back

2. an alternative spelling of do-si-do

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Etymology

Origin of dos-à-dos

1830–40; < French: back to back

Example Sentences

The automobile of the future will look no more like the motor car of to-day than the limousine of 1913 looks like the dos-à-dos of 1896.

From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2013

The days had not arrived when acrobatic feats had invaded the decorum of the ballroom, and such simple departures from the routine as dos-à-dos and single hand were enough to provoke envy and astonishment.

From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest

Some one kindly told him that they no longer danced dos-à-dos.

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore

‘Right hand across! forward two; balancez; ladies chain; forward four; dos-à-dos; chassez to the right; cross over; all round;’ here, there, every where, and all over—he was up to it all.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

Should quadrilles be proposed, you will also be able to avoid those little dos-à-dos accidents which are by no means agreeable, and be qualified to pronounce, with tolerable certainty, which is your own partner.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829 by Various