Tete-a-tete
A tête-à-tête (according to some sources also tête-à-tête or tete-a-tete ; literally French tête-à-tête 'head to head'; adverb : tête-à-tête , confidential, in private ') is a confidential conversation or a rendezvous .
In France to this day, the word describes a confidential conversation between two people, a one-to-one conversation or a cozy conversation. In this sense, the word is also used for a table runner , breakfast dishes and seating for two people or a single (game) in pétanque .
As Gallicism in German, the expression, like some other French terms, got a romantic and / or erotic undertone in the meaning of rendezvous or Schäferstündchen .
The Anglicisation of the German language is increasingly displacing the French expression. Instead, the term date is used for all appointments, both private and business ("Meeting, Appointment, Rendezvous", whereby only informal appointments are referred to as dates in the English-speaking world ).
literature
- Larousse large dictionary , Könemann-Verlag 1994
See also
- Privatissimum (professional exchange of ideas or colloquium in a selected group of participants)
