Tête-à-tête n.
  1. Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.
  2. A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.
  Tête-à-tête, a. Private; confidential; familiar.
     She avoided tête-à-tête walks with him.   --C. Kingsley.
  Tête-à-tête, adv. Face to face; privately or confidentially; familiarly.
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  tete-a-tete
       adj : involving two persons; intimately private; "a tete-a-tete
             supper"; "a head-to-head conversation" [syn: head-to-head]
       n 1: a private conversation between two people
       2: small sofa that seats two people [syn: love seat, vis-a-vis]