vis-à-vis de
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.z‿a.vi də/
Preposition
- opposite
- C’est vis-à-vis de la piscine. ― It's opposite the swimming-pool.
- 1854, Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir [The Red and the Black], Michel Lévy frères:
- Presque en même temps, il aperçut une jeune personne, extrêmement blonde et fort bien faite, qui vint s’asseoir vis-à-vis de lui.
- Almost at the same time, he glimpsed a young person, extremely blonde and very shapely, who came and sat down opposite him.
- regarding, vis-à-vis
- 1866, Comtesse de Ségur, “Colère du père Thomas”, in La Fortune de Gaspard, Librairie Hachette et Cie:
- Au fait, ça ne change rien à sa position vis-à-vis de nous.
- By the way, that doesn't change his position with regards to us.
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