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tête-à-tête

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tête-à-tête  (tt-tt, tt-tt)
adv. & adj.
Without the intrusion of a third person; in intimate privacy: talk tête-à-tête; a tête-à-tête supper.
n.
1. A private conversation between two persons.
2. A sofa for two, especially an S-shaped one allowing the occupants to face each other.

[French : tête, head + à, to + tête, head.]

tête-à-tête
Noun
pl -têtes or -tête
a private conversation between two people
Adverb
together in private: they dined tête-à-tête [French, literally: head to head]


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