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tête-à-tête
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synonyms: colloquy, parley, confabulation, collocution, interlocution, chinwag, natter, blether ???
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Definition:a private, 2-person conversation
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What made it hard to change the conversation was the fact that he was very attractive to her. So that he was considerably relieved at the arrival of Princess Myakaya, which cut short their tête-à-tête.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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It would be intolerable to me to pass a whole evening tête-à-tête with a brat.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Only as night came on when the passengers were asleep and I was left tête-à-tête with my conscience, I began to understand what I had not been able to grasp before.
Anton Chekhov. Love and Other Stories.
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we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day's tete-a-tete between two women can never end without a quarrel.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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