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Today's Word "tryst"

An appointment to meet on

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tryst \TRIST; TRYST\ (noun) - 1 : An appointment (as between lovers) to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting. 2 : To mutually agree to meet at a certain place; to keep a tryst.

"After meeting casually several times at the coffee shop, Jay suggested that he and Kay should arrange an actual tryst while stopping short of calling it an actual date."

 

Tryst is from Middle English triste, tryste, "a station to which game was driven (in hunting)," from Old French triste, "a station to which game was driven, a watch post," probably of Scandinavian origin.


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