dos-à-dos

American  

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

noun

plural

dos-à-dos

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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Etymology

Origin of dos-à-dos

1830–40; < French: back to back

Example Sentences

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

‘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 Clark, Lewis Gaylord

“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 Fenn, George Manville

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 days had not arrived when acrobatic feats had invaded the decorum of the ballroom, and such simple departures from the routine as dos-à-dos and single hand were enough to provoke envy and astonishment.

From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest