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Meaning of à deux | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

/ɑː ˈdɜː/

Definitions

To be played by two people.
Privately; one-on-one.

Equivalents

Français à deux

Examples

“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 […]”

“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[…]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

a dime a dozen a diminutive of the male given name Alfonso a dish in Peruvian cuisine a drink native to southern a drowning man will clutch at a straw a dunce, an idiot