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vis-à-vis

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 195 words | Copyright

vis-à-vis either of two persons facing each other; carriage for two sitting face-to-face. XVIII. — (O)F., ‘face to face’; OF. vis face (see prec.), à to (:- L. ad).

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