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1 —as in:
involved in a tête-à-tête
Definition
a private conversation between two people- They enjoyed a daily tête-à-tête as they walked through the woods.
tête-à-tête = a private conversation between two people
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Our tête-à-têtes just don't seem the same when we try them via Facetime.
- The Beta blond was ravished away into the sky and kept there, hovering, for three weeks in a wildly anti-social tête-à-tête with the black madman.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tete-a-tete from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- Besides, there was gratitude towards her, for having made their tete-a-tete so much less painful than her fears had predicted.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- On the morrow they were walking about together with true enjoyment, and every succeeding morrow renewed a tete-a-tete which Sir Thomas could not but observe with complacency, even before Edmund had pointed it out to him.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- An elegant, moderate-sized house in the centre of family connexions; continual engagements among them; commanding the first society in the neighbourhood; looked up to, perhaps, as leading it even more than those of larger fortune, and turning from the cheerful round of such amusements to nothing worse than a tete-a-tete with the person one feels most agreeable in the world.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
tête-à-têtes = private conversations between two people
tête-à-tête = private conversation between two people
tete-a-tete = private conversation between two people
tete-a-tete = private conversation
tete-a-tete = private conversation between two people
tete-a-tete = private conversation
2 —as in:
seated in a tête-à-tête
Definition
an S-shaped sofa that permits two people to sit face-to-face- We sat in a tête-à-tête and talked all night.
tête-à-tête = S-shaped sofa that permits two people to sit face-to-face
- It's the couple seated in the tête-à-tête.
tête-à-tête = S-shaped sofa that permits two people to sit face-to-face
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