All 4 Uses of
tête-à-tête
in
Pride and Prejudice
- "MY DEAR FRIEND,— "If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day's tete-a-tete between two women can never end without a quarrel.†
p. 31.3
- The next morning, however, made an alteration; for in a quarter of an hour's tete-a-tete with Mrs. Bennet before breakfast, a conversation beginning with his parsonage-house, and leading naturally to the avowal of his hopes, that a mistress might be found for it at Longbourn, produced from her, amid very complaisant smiles and general encouragement, a caution against the very Jane he had fixed on.†
p. 70.1
- The tete-a-tete surprised them.†
p. 175.6
- Yet time and her aunt moved slowly—and her patience and her ideas were nearly worn our before the tete-a-tete was over.†
p. 246.3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(tête-à-tête as in: involved in a tête-à-tête) a private conversation between two people
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(2)
(tête-à-tête as in: seated in a tête-à-tête) an S-shaped sofa that permits two people to sit face-to-face