tete-a-tetes Definition

tête-à-tête
noun tête-à-têtes

1. A private conversation or meeting between two people.
2. A kind of sofa, designed for two people to sit almost face to face.

adj

1. Private; intimate.

adverb

1. Intimately.

Example: They whispered tête-à-tête all evening

Etymology: 17c: French, literally ‘head to head'.