Antonyms for tète-à-tètes


Grammar : Noun
Spell : teyt-uh-teyt, tet-uh-tet; French te-ta-tet
Phonetic Transcription : ˈteɪt əˈteɪt, ˈtɛt əˈtɛt; French tɛ taˈtɛt


Definition of tète-à-tètes

Origin :
  • "a private meeting," French, tête-à-tête, literally "head-to-head," from Old French teste "head" (see tester (n.2)). The adjective, "privately," is recorded from 1728.
  • As in conversation : noun dialogue, discourse
Example sentences :
  • His manner to Vargrave was distant; he shunned all tete-a-tetes with his wife.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Everything, in fact, had presaged the pleasantest of tete-a-tetes.
  • Extract from : « Count Bunker » by J. Storer Clouston
  • Our tete-a-tetes were rather an inexhaustible chat than conversation, which could only conclude from interruption.
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete » by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • All that breaks from her, in our tete-a-tetes, upon the subject of dress, is both edifying and amiable.
  • Extract from : « The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Vol. 1 (of 3) » by Fanny Burney

Synonyms for tète-à-tètes

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