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Vis-a-vis

noun

A person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another. Synonyms: counterpart, opposite number.

Small sofa that seats two people. Synonyms: love seat, loveseat, tete-a-tete.

adverb

Face-to-face with; literally 'face to face'. "I found myself vis-a-vis a burly policeman"

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... more the Comedian was seated in a little parlour that adjoined Mr. Hartopp's counting-house,—Mr. Hartopp seated also, vis-a-vis. The Mayor had one of those countenances upon which good-nature throws a sunshine softer than Claude ever shed upon canvas. Josiah Hartopp had risen in life by little other art than that of quiet kindliness. As a ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... manquez d'agir envers nous en toute occasion et a laquelle Vous nous trouverez toujours prets a repondre, bien convaincus que c'est le moyen le plus sur pour eloigner tout sujet de complication et de mesentendu entre nos deux Gouvernements vis-a-vis des graves difficultes que ...

— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861 • Queen of Great Britain Victoria

... conversation, the greatest care should be devoted to the selection of a topic, good taste demanding that one should sedulously avoid any subject of which one's vis-a-vis may be in ignorance. Nor are the mere words alone to be considered. In the art of conversation much depends upon manner. The true conversationalist must, in opening, invest himself with an atmosphere of interest and solicitude. He must, as we say in French, ...

— The Hohenzollerns in America - With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities • Stephen Leacock

... on some wild pursuit, Driving along, he chanced to see Religion, passing by on foot, And took him in his vis-a-vis. ...

— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

... 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 ...

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

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