• Tête-à-tête

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ËŒtÉ›t.əˈtÉ›t/, /ËŒteɪt.əˈteɪt/

    Origin

    Borrowing from fr {{2}} tête-à-tête ("head-to-head")

    Full definition of tête-à-tête

    Noun

    1. A face-to-face meeting, or private conversation between two people, usually in an intimate setting; a head-to-head.
    2. A bench or sofa that allows two people to talk face-to-face.

    Adverb

    tête-à-tête

    1. In private, between two people; head-to-head.
      • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 10:In particular his tête-à-tête luncheons were described, to which, as it now turned out, practically every journalist listening had at one time or another been invited.

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