dos-à-dos
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
adverb
noun
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a seat on which the users sit back to back
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an alternative spelling of do-si-do
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of dos-à-dos
1830–40; < French: back to back
Example Sentences
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The automobile of the future will look no more like the motor car of to-day than the limousine of 1913 looks like the dos-à-dos of 1896.
From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2013
Should quadrilles be proposed, you will also be able to avoid those little dos-à-dos accidents which are by no means agreeable, and be qualified to pronounce, with tolerable certainty, which is your own partner.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829 by Various
Even then we should be no longer vis-à-vis as before, but dos-à-dos, almost on the instant of our approaching!
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
The ordinary carriage is a dos-à-dos, a most uncomfortable conveyance like an Irish car turned end on, but excellent carriages are provided by the hotels.
From From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Keyser, Arthur Louis
Some one kindly told him that they no longer danced dos-à-dos.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
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