Tete

[ tey-tey ]

/ ˈteɪ teɪ /

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noun

a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.

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Words nearby Tete

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How to use Tete in a sentence

Victor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
This carriage was ordered last night by a gentleman lodging at the Veau qui Tete?
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
The latter concluded from their frequent tete-a-tete at the piano and in corners that some love-making was going on between them.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician|Frederick Niecks
We are shut up together, tete-a-tete, which is so much the better or so much the worse.
Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete|Guy de Maupassant

Our tete-a-tetes were rather an inexhaustible chat than conversation, which could only conclude from interruption.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete|Jean Jacques Rousseau