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vis-à-vis

/vi.za.vi/

adverb/vi.za.vi/

Facing, face-to-face

Synonyms: face à face

From Old French vis + à + vis, vis m being an obsolete word for “face”, replaced in Modern French by visage m.

noun, masculine/vi.za.vi/

a meeting, especially a private one; a position where two things face each other; an equivalent; a counterpart on the opposing side, interlocutor, negotiation partner; What faces someone or something, such as a view or the person seated in front

Les maisons sont en vis-à-vis.The houses face each other.

Synonyms: tête-à-tête, homologue

From Old French vis + à + vis, vis m being an obsolete word for “face”, replaced in Modern French by visage m.