concept
Vis-a-vis
vis-a-vis
French for 'face to face,' used fashionably in period Russian society to mean one's dance partner or the person seated opposite; the narrator signs his anonymous love letter with this term.
Reading notes
- My Nana §3 vis-a-vis
French for 'face to face' — here used as a fashionable Gallicism meaning one's dance partner or the person one sat opposite at a social gathering, signing the anonymous letter with mock formality.