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Tete

Tete \T[^e]te\, n. [F., the head. See Tester a covering.] A kind of wig; false hair.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tete

as a type of women's tall dressed hair or wig, 1756, from French tête "head," Old French teste, from Latin testa, literally "piece of earthenware, tile, potsherd; earthen pot, pitcher, jug; shell of shellfish," related to Latin testudo "tortoise" and texere "to weave" (compare Lithuanian tištas "vessel made of willow twigs;" see texture (n.)).\n

\nThe "head" sense arose in Vulgar Latin, perhaps as a humorous use of the "jug, pot" meaning, or via Late Latin use of testa as "skull," from testa (capitis) "shell (of the head)." Compare German Kopf "head" from the root of English cup (n.).

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Teté

Teté (24 August 1907 – 18 June 1962) was a Brazilian football manager who coached Brazil national team for some games in 1956. He also coached Sport Club Internacional during the 1950s.

Tété

Tété is a French musician, born in Dakar, Senegal on 25 July 1975. His mother is from Martinique and his father is from Senegal.

Tété is described as the French version of Jeff Buckley. Tété's music can be described as an intimate, solo classical guitar musical style. He defines himself to be a " troubadour and manufacturer of pop-folk-bluesy songs with intellectual pretensions." His music combines blues, folk and pop influences, such as the Delta Blues, Lenny Kravitz, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.

Tête

Tête, head in French, may refer to :

  • Tête (sculpture), a work of art by Amedeo Modigliani; one of the most expensive sculptures ever sold
  • Je danse dans ma tête, a song from the Dion chante Plamondon album by Céline Dion
  • Tête-bêche, a joined pair of stamps in philately
  • Tête Jaune (d. 1828), an Iroquois-Métis trapper/furtrader/explorer
  • Tête Jaune Cache, British Columbia, a town in Canada
  • Tête à Tête (Murray Head album), a studio album by Murray Head
  • Tête de Moine, a Swiss cheese
  • Grosse Tete, Louisiana, a village in the United States of America
  • La mauvaise tête, a Spirou et Fantasio album
  • Tête-à-La-Baleine Airport, in Tête-à-La-Baleine, Quebec
  • a title in the list of Picasso artworks 1911-1920
  • Tête Blanche, a mountain in the Alps
Tete (disambiguation)

Tete may refer to:

  • Tête, head in French
  • Tête à Tête, head to head in French
  • Tête de Moine, a type of Swiss cheese
  • Tete Province in Mozambique and Tete, its capital which is the location of a suspension bridge across the Zambezi River.
  • Tété, a French musician
  • Tete Montoliu, a Spanish jazz pianist
    • '' Tete!, an album by Tete Montoliu
Tête (sculpture)

Tête is a limestone sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani and is amongst the most expensive works of art ever sold. In 2010 an anonymous telephone bidder purchased Tête for €43.2 million at Christie's in Paris. The sale was a record at a French auction and placed the sculpture amongst the most expensive ever sold. An anonymous telephone bidder won the auction. Since 1927 the piece had been in the collection of Gaston Lévy, an artist and acquaintance of Modigliani.

Usage examples of "tete".

Leurs coiffes blanches, tantot relevees en coquille sur le haut de la tete, tantot pendantes sur les epaules, mettent dans les assemblees une grace tres douce, profonde et triste.

Et aussi, je dois te le confesser, puisque je ne te cache rien, certaines railleries qui, adressees a de la Vigne, me parurent passer par-dessus la tete de celui-ci pour frapper sur moi.

Il faut me pardonner, quand je vous vois, je perds la tete et ne pense plus a rien.

Saint-Thegonec, le bavolet de Landerneau, toutes ces coiffures portees depuis tant de siecles chargent ces tetes nouvelles de toute la melancolie du passe.

Il ne repondit pas, et il se mit a marcher en long, en large, a pas saccades, la tete haute, les yeux brillants, les levres fremissantes.

Voyons, ce ne peut pas etre un chagrin pour toi de rester en tete a-tete avec le duc?

Il avait dans la tete un parfait cuisinier et une bonne geographie gastronomique de la France.

Et Ulysse, qui avait vu par les mers tant de spectacles a faire dresser les cheveux sur la tete, eut peur.

Mais on ne saurait imaginer toutes les complications de la pensee dans une tete de cinq ans.

Mais cette pression, qui naguere le secouait de la tete aux pieds, arretait le sang dans ses veines et contractait tous ses nerfs, le laissa insensible et froid.

Tout a coup un fracas de verrerie lui fit brusquement tourner la tete pour voir qui venait de renverser cette verrerie, et il apercut au milieu de la chambre, se tenant sur la pointe des pieds sans oser avancer ou reculer, son ancien professeur Crozat.

Se voyant observee, elle se cacha la tete entre ses mains, mais le tremblement de ses bras trahit son emotion.

Corysandre etait restee en arriere, mais sans chercher a se cacher, la tete haute, ne laissant paraitre sa confusion que par le trouble de ses yeux et la rougeur de son visage.

Corysandre etait restee en arriere, mais sans chercher a se cacher, la tete haute, ne laissant paraitre sa confusion que par le trouble de ses yeux et la rougeur de son visage.

Se voyant observee, elle se cacha la tete entre ses mains, mais le tremblement de ses bras trahit son emotion.