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noun
1.
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
2.
an appointed meeting.
3.
an appointed place of meeting.
verb (used with object)
4.
Chiefly Scot. to make an appointment or arrange a meeting with.
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Tryst
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is subtilize. Does it mean:
| to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about. |
| to spend time idly; loaf. |
verb (used without object)
5.
Chiefly Scot. to make an appointment or agreement.
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Example Sentences
- Look to the place where rolled newspapers dwell, snow blowers roar, free throws soar heavenward and teen-agers tryst.
- Nothing about the job of a governor makes a discrete tryst with a porteña intolerable.
- She goes to a fancy food shop and buys a box of chocolate truffles, the kind he gave her after their first tryst.
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Word Origin & History
tryst
late 14c., from O.Fr. tristre "appointed station in hunting," possibly from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. treysta "to trust;" see trust).
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