Absorbed by matching notes, leaves meeting (4-1-4)
I believe the answer is:
tete-a-tete
'meeting' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Small meeting' mean 'tete a tete' so perhaps 'meeting' could also mean 'tete a tete')
'absorbed by matching notes' is the wordplay.
'absorbed by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'matching' becomes 'a' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'notes' becomes 'te te te te' (the musical note 'te' four times).
'a' put within 'tetetete' is 'TETE-A-TETE'.
'leaves' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tete-a-tete that I've seen before include "Private meeting" , "Private conversation between two French people" , "Private conversation between two people as in France" , "One-to-one meeting" , "Informal chat" .)