trysting place
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trysting place
First recorded in 1625–35
Example Sentences
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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
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
At the foot of the lonely garden, When she comes to the trysting place She knew of old, there she lingers, With a blush on her withered face.
From The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter
He arrived at the "Red Lion," their appointed trysting place, before Hardy, and spent a restless half-hour in the porch and bar waiting for his return.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
His wife or wives stay by the fire at a trysting place, care for the children, and collect plant food.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
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