Private; confidential
tete-a-tete \TAYT-uh-TAYT; TET-uh-TET\ (adjective) - Private; confidential; familiar.
(noun) - 1 : A private conversation between two people. 2 : A short sofa intended to accommodate two persons.
"There was a phone in her office, but she wasn't near brave enough to hang around having a tete-a- tete with a corpse while she waited for the police." -- Lori Foster, 'Bad Boys to Go'
Tete-a-tete comes from the French, literally "head-to-head."
(noun) - 1 : A private conversation between two people. 2 : A short sofa intended to accommodate two persons.
"There was a phone in her office, but she wasn't near brave enough to hang around having a tete-a- tete with a corpse while she waited for the police." -- Lori Foster, 'Bad Boys to Go'
Tete-a-tete comes from the French, literally "head-to-head."
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