Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of appointing a meeting; an appointed meeting.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An appointment; a tryst.
  • noun an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like.
  • noun a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of tryst.
  • noun An appointment; a tryst.

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Examples

  • Camp Nichols may well be called a trysting-place of heroes.

    Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

  • Camp Nichols may well be called a trysting-place of heroes.

    Memories Beers, Fannie A. 1888

  • The hut, also, though a little repaired, and somewhat better furnished, was certainly the place of his confinement; and he now recollected on the common moor of Tully-Veolan the trunk of a large decayed tree, called the trysting-tree, which he had no doubt was the same at which the Highlanders rendezvoused on that memorable night.

    The Waverley 1877

  • A roof collapses on a restaurant known as a trysting spot on Valentine's Day, interrupting whatever romance plans the doctors might have had.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • A roof collapses on a restaurant known as a trysting spot on Valentine's Day, interrupting whatever romance plans the doctors might have had.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • A roof collapses on a restaurant known as a trysting spot on Valentine's Day, interrupting whatever romance plans the doctors might have had.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • A roof collapses on a restaurant known as a trysting spot on Valentine's Day, interrupting whatever romance plans the doctors might have had.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • A roof collapses on a restaurant known as a trysting spot on Valentine's Day, interrupting whatever romance plans the doctors might have had.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • A roof collapses on a restaurant known as a trysting spot on Valentine's Day, interrupting whatever romance plans the doctors might have had.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • A roof collapses on a restaurant known as a trysting spot on Valentine's Day, interrupting whatever romance plans the doctors might have had.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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