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tryst

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tryst  (trst)
n.
1. An agreement, as between lovers, to meet at a certain time and place.
2. A meeting or meeting place that has been agreed on. See Synonyms at engagement.
intr.v. tryst·ed, tryst·ing, trysts
To keep a tryst.

[Middle English trist, from Old French triste, a waiting place (in hunting); see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

tryster n.

tryst [trɪst traɪst] Archaic or literary
n
1. an appointment to meet, esp secretly
2. the place of such a meeting or the meeting itself
vb
(intr) to meet at or arrange a tryst
[from Old French triste lookout post, apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse traust trust]
tryster  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.trysttryst - a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex
appointment, engagement, date - a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"
2.trysttryst - a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
rendezvous - a meeting planned at a certain time and place
Translations
tryst [trɪst] N (liter, hum)
1. (= meeting) → cita f
2. (also trysting-place) → lugar m de encuentro
tryst
n (old)Stelldichein nt (dated)


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And so Tarzan always came back to Nature in the spirit of a lover keeping a long deferred tryst after a period behind prison walls.
And sometimes, she says, it gives her a little eerie feeling, too, as if her Aunt Una were really sitting there beside him, keeping tryst, although she has been in her grave for forty years.
She went to Matthew's grave, in the little poplar-shaded Avonlea graveyard, and there kept a silent tryst with old memories and immortal loves.
 
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