Crossword clues for tete-a-tete
tete-a-tete
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tete-a-tete \T[^e]te`-[`a]-t[^e]te"\ (t[=a]t`[.a]*t[=a]t"), n.
Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.
A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.
Tete-a-tete \T[^e]te`-[`a]-t[^e]te"\, a. Private; confidential; familiar.
She avoided t[^e]te-[`a]-t[^e]te walks with him.
--C.
Kingsley.
Tete-a-tete \T[^e]te`-[`a]-t[^e]te"\, adv.
Face to face; privately or confidentially; familiarly.
--Prior.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a private meeting," from French tête-à-tête, literally "head-to-head," from Old French teste "head" (see tete). The adjective, "private, confidential, with none present but the persons concerned" is recorded from 1728; as an adverb from 1790.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of tête-à-tête English)
WordNet
adj. involving two persons; intimately private; "a tete-a-tete supper"; "a head-to-head conversation" [syn: head-to-head]
n. a private conversation between two people
small sofa that seats two people [syn: love seat, vis-a-vis]
Wikipedia
Tête-à-tête is a non-fiction book by Hazel Rowley about the lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
Usage examples of "tete-a-tete".
Angela will be at liberty to grant you throughout the night a tete-a-tete which, I trust, will prove a happy one.
I took care to have a good supper and some excellent wines, and after we had spent two hours at table in the midst of the joys of Bacchus, I devoted four more to a pleasant tete-a-tete with my intended bride.
Bonneval had told me, I was afraid lest the Turk should take a fancy to give me too great a proof of his friendship, and I did not relish our tete-a-tete.
The next day, when he called on me, I overwhelmed him with the most bitter reproaches, and he tried to excuse himself by saying that he never would have acted in that manner if he had not felt satisfied that I had already treated his sister in the tete-a-tete in the same way that he treated his mistress before us.
New York, there are waitresses and such who get paid by gossip columnists to report on newsworthy people having a tete-a-tete in a dark lounge.
Lucrezia feigned not to hear, but it was to her Ariadne's clue, for, as we were to remain altogether during our visit to the beauties of Tivoli, we had no chance of a tete-a-tete through the day.
It was the first time that the happy couple admitted a third person to their tete-a-tete.
We arrived in Milan without accident, but both very sad, and we spent the following fifteen days in constant tete-a-tete, without speaking to anyone, except the landlord of the hotel and to a dressmaker.
During that long tete-a-tete I had no difficulty in abstaining from bestowing any caresses upon her.
We climbed belfries to survey our kingdom, and afterwards huddled in crowded coffeehouses for a little while merely to feel and smell the mortals around us, to exchange secret glances, to laugh softly, tete-a-tete.
I obey'd with a heart full of affliction, at the comparison it made between those delicious tete-a-tetes with my ever dear youth, and this forc'd situation, this new awkward scene, impos'd and obtruded on me by cruel necessity.
There were gaming rooms, of course, and dozens of little snuggeries where small groups, or couples could enjoy each other's company tete-a-tete.