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Trysting

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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.


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Do you know, I have been trysting here with ghosts.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
All the air was laden with the bitter fragrance of the May, and all the bosky shades of the woodlands beyond rang with the sweet song of birds--the throstle cock, the cuckoo, and the wood pigeon-- and with the song of birds mingled the cool sound of the gurgling brook that leaped out of the forest shades, and ran fretting amid its rough, gray stones across the sunlit open glade before the trysting tree.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context
---Signed by us upon the eve of St Withold's day, under the great trysting oak in the Hart-hill Walk, the above being written by a holy man, Clerk to God, our Lady, and St Dunstan, in the Chapel of Copmanhurst.
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