à deux

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French à deux.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɑː ˈdɜː/, /ə ˈdɜː/

Prepositional phrase

à deux

  1. (music) To be played by two people.
  2. Privately; one-on-one.
    • (Can we date this quote?), William Manchester, The Last Lion, volume 2, page 458:
      It is arguable that Litvinov, had he met with civility and those supple conversations à deux in which trained diplomats excel, might have stopped the war […]
    • 2012 November 20, Paul Reid, William Manchester, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
      Like their leader, none in the party spoke a word of German. Henderson, who would join them in Munich, was fluent in German, but of course he also spoke in tongues. Chamberlain and Hitler would talk à deux […]

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