tete a tete

A form of tête-à-tête — A face-to-face meeting, or private conversation between two people, usually in an intimate setting; a head-to-head.

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Meanings

nountete a tete (plural tete a tetes)

plural tete a tetes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tête-à-tête.

    Among other points of moralising reflection which the sight of this Tete a Tete produced, Charlotte cᵈ not but think of the extreme difficulty which secret Lovers must have in finding a proper spot for their stolen Interveiws.^([sic])

    Sanditon

    1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, pages 168–169
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