dos-à-dos

American  

[doh-see-doh, -zi-, doh-za-doh] / ˈdoʊ siˈdoʊ, -zɪ-, doʊ zaˈdoʊ /

noun

• dos-à-dos
  plural

1. do-si-do.

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verb (used with or without object)

dos-à-dosed, dos-à-dosing

1. to do-si-do.

adverb

1. Archaic. back to back.

dos-à-dos British  

/ ˌdəʊsɪˈdəʊ, dozado /

noun

1. a seat on which the users sit back to back

2. an alternative spelling of do-si-do

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dos-à-dos
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of dos-à-dos

1830–40; < French: back to back

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

dos-à-dos

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

Some one kindly told him that they no longer danced dos-à-dos.

From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

‘Right hand across! forward two; balancez; ladies chain; forward four; dos-à-dos; chassez to the right; cross over; all round;’ here, there, every where, and all over—he was up to it all.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

“P’raps you’ll just use about as much of this here ’bus as you pays for,” said the man seated dos-à-dos to him, and whom he had slightly pressed.

From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by George Manville Fenn

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

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