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
Some one kindly told him that they no longer danced dos-à-dos.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
The street cab of Batavia is a "dos-à-dos" literally so called, as the passenger sits with his back to the driver's, thus forming a mutual support.
From On the Equator by De Windt, Harry
“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
‘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
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