trysting place
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trysting place
First recorded in 1625–35
Example Sentences
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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 Lytton, Henry A.
Again they passed by the smithy lights, heard the ring of the anvils, and soon they were back at the trysting place.
From Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke
This is the grouse's love song that summons a mate to their trysting place.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje
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