The Only Use
vis-à-vis
in
Wuthering Heights
(Auto-generated)
- Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, but gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down to him, leaving me VIS-A-VIS the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep-dogs, who shared with her a jealous guardianship over all my movements.†
p. 4.1
Definitions:
-
(1)
(vis-à-vis) as compared with
-
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The literal translation is "face-to-face", and the term is sometimes used with that meaning; e.g., "They sat vis-à-vis at the table."