英语词汇tête à tête的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	tête à tête
词源	tête à tête. Tête is the French word for “head,” familiar to us in expressions like tête à tête, literally “head to head,” which means a private conversation between two people. Interestingly, this important French word came into French from Latin slang. Few people would guess that the French word for head was originally the Latin slang for “pot.”
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