Both Uses of
tête-à-tête
in
Sense and Sensibility
- The consequence was, that Elinor set out by herself to pay a visit, for which no one could really have less inclination, and to run the risk of a tete-a-tete with a woman, whom neither of the others had so much reason to dislike.†
Chpt 41 *
- Edward was allowed to retain the privilege of first comer, and Colonel Brandon therefore walked every night to his old quarters at the Park; from whence he usually returned in the morning, early enough to interrupt the lovers' first tete-a-tete before breakfast.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(tête-à-tête as in: involved in a tête-à-tête) a private conversation between two people