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noun

Tryst n.

Trust. (Obs.)

An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. (Scot. or Poetic)

To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment. "The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile."

verb

Tryst v. t.

To trust. (Obs.)

To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. (Scot.)

Tryst v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. (Scot.)

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"Tryst" Quotes from Famous Books

... woke. He had not for a moment last night expected this. Four o'clock had been for months the hour of his tryst with the powers of darkness. They hovered over him then with dull grey wings extended, from sunrise to sunset, from east to west. He never had the courage to peer up at them and see how far the wings really did reach. They covered his mortal ...

— Old Crow • Alice Brown

... heights is chilly at any season. Perhaps, too, we were trying to leave behind us the moat-stench that the water had merely reduced, not washed away. A quarter of a mile before we reached the place appointed we knew that Anazeh had not failed to keep his tryst. Away up above us, beside the tomb, like an ancient bearded ghost, Anazeh stood motionless, silent, conning the track we should come by—a grand old savage keeping faith against his neighbours for the sake ...

— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... indeed.... And yet To me, when nights are weird and wet, Without those comrades there at tryst Creeping slowly, creeping sadly, That love-lane does not exist. There they seem brooding on their pain, And will, while such a ...

— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd

... sentiment. His brother sculptors declared that his statuettes were modelled with exceeding dash and directness; they were certainly fanciful and amusing. I remember one that I used to like immensely—Titania driving to a tryst with Bottom, her chariot a lily, daisies for wheels, and for steeds a pair of mettlesome field-mice. I doubt if he ever got a commission for a complete house; but the staircases he designed, the fire-places, and other bits of buildings, everybody ...

— Grey Roses • Henry Harland

... countrywoman more than ever; her intrinsic clearness shone out to him even through the darker shade cast over it. At the end of a month he received a letter from a friend with whom he had arranged a tour through the Low Countries, reminding him of his promise to keep their tryst at Brussels. It was only after his answer was posted that he fully measured the zeal with which he had declared that the journey must either be deferred or abandoned—since he couldn't possibly leave Saint-Germain. He ...

— Madame de Mauves • Henry James

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