tete-a-tete(a private conversation between two people. Just before they were readying to head back to New York, Sullivan had asked Ed to join him for a drink and a tete-a-tete at the bar. BUSINESS TODAY (1999) `Are you determined to cut short this pleasant tete-a-tete? Holt, Victoria THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND `So you finally wound up your little tete-a-tete with the journalist? Nicola Barker BEHINDLINGS (2002). Collins Alexander Demidov)