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noun

Vis-a-vis n.

One who, or that which, is face to face with another; esp., one who faces another in dancing.

A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.

adverb

Vis-a-vis adv. Face to face.

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Etymology of 'Vis-a-vis'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vis-a-vis" Quotes from Famous Books

... that swoons, 'twixt sweet amaze and fear, I heard the music burning in my ear, And felt I cared not, so thou wert with me, If Gurth or Wamba were our vis-a-vis. So, when a tall Knight Templar ringing came, And took his place amongst us with his dame, I neither turned away, nor bashful shrunk From the stern survey of the soldier-monk, Though rather more than three full quarters drunk; But, threading through the figure, ...

— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun

... was made to Marie Francoise Chartier, widow of the Sieur de Soulanges. Her seigniory included the larger portion of Gagetown parish in Queens county, the central point being opposite her old residence or, as the grant expresses it, "vis-a-vis la maison ...

— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond

... if a letter had arrived for me from Sylvester Berkley. Not a line! This silence became inconvenient. Not only did I rely upon Berkley for my passport, the certificate of my character, but likewise for the revictualing of my purse. As I passed the small throne-room of Francine, where she sat vis-a-vis with all her keys and bells, a light, a presence, an amicable little nod informed me that a friend was there for me, and sent a bath of warm and comfortable emotion all over my ...

— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various

... her vis-a-vis of life, and feeling very uneasily what she had never felt before. She began therewith to ponder sundry extraordinary propositions about the inequalities of social condition and the relative duties of man ...

— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner

... evening, sewing busily away behind the bars upon frocks that would have graced a court ball, and lunching in familiar sociability with the family, sometimes having a bey or a captain or a pasha for a vis-a-vis when the men in the family ...

— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

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