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tryst
[trist, trahyst]
–noun
| 1. | an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, esp. 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. |
–verb (used without object)
| 5. | Chiefly Scot. to make an appointment or agreement. |
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tryst (trĭst) n.
To keep a tryst. [Middle English trist, from Old French triste, a waiting place (in hunting); see deru- in Indo-European roots.] tryst'er n. |
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Tryst
Tryst\, n. [OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. treysta to make trusty, fr. traust confidence, security. See Trust, n.]1. Trust. [Obs.] 2. An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or Poetic] To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment. The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile. --Tennyson.Tryst
Tryst\, v. t. [OE. tristen, trysten. See Tryst, n.]1. To trust. [Obs.] 2. To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [Scot.] --Burns.Tryst
Tryst\, v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.]
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tryst
c.1375, from O.Fr. tristre "appointed station in hunting," possibly from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. treysta "to trust;" see trust).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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