trysting place

American  

noun

1. a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.

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Etymology

Origin of trysting place

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

Scathingly they view it only as a trysting place for shopgirls and their beaux, a shelter for nurse-girls and babies on rainy days, a "point of interest" for out-of-towners.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great vault of Atlantic City's "world's largest" Convention Hall, national trysting place of bigwig and bruiser, was filled, last week, with fine dust raised by the heels of 10,000 school teachers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of the polling-booth, where nothing counts but heads, you would set for the two parties another trysting place.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

She met her sweethearts on the street, at the soda fountain, in that trysting place for juvenile sweetheartings, the far corner of the post-office corridor.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

I will let you carry the violin now," said Winn, when they had left the village out of sight, "I want to gather a few wild roses to decorate your trysting place.

From Rockhaven by Munn, Charles Clark

Related Words

• gathering place
• hangout
• meeting place
• watering hole