trysting place
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trysting place
First recorded in 1625–35
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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
Well, I bedecked myself in my best and marched off in good time to the trysting place at the stage door.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
Mylio—"At our last interview Florette promised me to be at our accustomed trysting place to-night at moon-rise."
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Eugène Sue
There is no trysting place outside reason; there is no inn on those wild roads that are beyond the world.
From Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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