tryst
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
an appointed meeting.
an appointed place of meeting.
Chiefly Scot. to make an appointment or arrange a meeting with.
Chiefly Scot. to make an appointment or agreement.
Origin of tryst
1Other words for tryst
Other words from tryst
- tryster, noun
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How to use tryst in a sentence
Welcome to The Angel, one of the pay-by-the-hour lodgings offering a discreet haven for trysts and visits with dominatrixes.
That facilitated food to equal what he could have enjoyed on the outside as well as regular trysts with a female inmate.
El Chapo on the Couch: Inside a Drug Lord's Therapy Sessions | Michael Daly | March 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe journalists wanted to see how President François Hollande would explain his alleged trysts with actress Julie Gayet.
Chaos and Desire: French President Hollande Meets the Press | Christopher Dickey | January 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn fairness, like glossies anywhere, French tabloids are fallible, prone to playing up alleged trysts that fall flat.
French President François Hollande Slams Affair Allegations | Tracy McNicoll | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf her numerous trysts, even these relatively insignificant ones are given a surprising measure of attention.
‘Mirages’: Anaïs Nin’s Intimate, Unexpurgated Diaries | Lizzie Crocker | October 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
The primitive trysts were probably at the old Trysting Trees; trust means reliability and credit and truce means peace.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyThat flits upon an orbit elliptically or parabolically or hyperbolically curved, keeping no man knows what trysts with Time.
The Rhythm of Life | Alice MeynellThe Tay no longer makes trysts with its tributaries to meet “at the bonny cross of St. Johnstoun.”
Here was no Juliet, flaming to the moon—no mistress whose steed would gallop by wind-swept roads to midnight trysts.
The Gay Cockade | Temple BaileyThe young men and maidens turned prayer-meeting into trysts and scrubbing-bees into festivals.
Other Main-Travelled Roads | Hamlin Garland
British Dictionary definitions for tryst
/ (trɪst, traɪst) archaic, or literary /
an appointment to meet, esp secretly
the place of such a meeting or the meeting itself
(intr) to meet at or arrange a tryst
Origin of tryst
1Derived forms of tryst
- tryster, noun
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