tête

Examples

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• Incumbent presidents have a tremendous prestige advantage in re-election campaigns, which only get enhanced by public tête-à-tête with other heads of state.

  Blog text (29)

• If she thought we were going to have a little tête-à-tête, she was wrong.

  Fiction book (1990)

• If she thought we were going to have a little tête-à-tête, she was wrong.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "Your head would make a good tête sculpté," she said.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Can you imagine her having an intimate tête-à-tête with Mr. Charles Pickard?

  Fiction book (1990)

• I told him, you see, that when I grew up I wanted to be a knight. "Instead of which you became a soldier," interposed Annabelle with a smile, having resigned herself to the fact that her opinions weighed little in this masculine tête-à-tête.

  Fiction book (1990)

• I told him, you see, that when I grew up I wanted to be a knight. "Instead of which you became a soldier," interposed Annabelle with a smile, having resigned herself to the fact that her opinions weighed little in this masculine tête-à-tête.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Older women would help young girls prepare their regional costume, complete with têtes mariées (the head coif), careful to adhere to the traditional meaning of the knot configuration.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Their discussion turned into an unexpected tête-à-tête, revealing their true feelings for one another.

• The CEO arranged a private tête-à-tête with the board members to discuss the new strategy.

Synonyms

B

bonce

vstête

• UK

9.9

A person's head, used informally in British English

is the foreign loanword used in certain expressions in English

Compounds

T

tête-à-tête

5 8.6

Private time for two people to talk alone

Surface Forms

Etymology