tete a tete

See also: tête-à-tête, tête à tête, and tete-a-tete

English

Noun

tete a tete (plural tete a tetes)

1. Alternative form of tête-à-tête
   • 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, pages 168–169:

     Among other points of moralising reflection which the sight of this Tete a Tete produced, Charlotte c^d not but think of the extreme difficulty which secret Lovers must have in finding a proper spot for their stolen Interveiws.^[sic]