tête-à-tête
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.
of, between, or for two persons together without others.
(of two persons) together in private: to sit tête-à-tête.
Origin of tête-à-tête
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How to use tête-à-tête in a sentence
The latter concluded from their frequent tete-a-tete at the piano and in corners that some love-making was going on between them.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksWe are shut up together, tete-a-tete, which is so much the better or so much the worse.
Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete | Guy de MaupassantOur walks, tete-a-tete, on the outside of the city, where I magnificently spent eight or ten sous in each guinguette.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques RousseauOne evening after having supped tete-a-tete we went to walk in the garden by a fine moonlight.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques RousseauThere was silence, a longer silence than usually occurred in tete-a-tete dinners between Lord and Lady Roehampton.
Endymion | Benjamin Disraeli
British Dictionary definitions for tête-à-tête
/ (ˌteɪtəˈteɪt) /
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
intimately; in private
Origin of tête-à-tête
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Cultural definitions for tête-à-tête
[ (tayt-uh-tayt) ]
An intimate meeting or conversation between two individuals. From French, meaning “head to head.”
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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