tryst
IPA: trˈɪst
noun
- A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
- (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
- (Scotland, historical) A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
- (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
- (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
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Examples of "tryst" in Sentences
- Mr. Bush’s tryst is said to involve Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
- Zuma insists she implicitly asked for it and called the tryst consensual.
- Our tryst was a cave where a little water called the Dyve Burn had cut its way through the cliffs to the sea.
- Their hushed face-to-face, in which we learn their tryst was a one-nighter, is fraught with concern over Alicia.
- Y: Moses said: "Your tryst is the Day of the Festival, and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up."
- New York tabloids jumped on what one called his tryst fund, and in an interview with Katie Couric, Rudy cried foul.
- Padre, that the failure of the prince to keep our tryst was the biggest disappointment and the sharpest humiliation of my life.
- In the middle of the studio a large wooden canvas painted blue with a black lined pulp inspired tryst is lifted by three studio assistants to rest on blocks against the wall so that it's bottom can be painted.
- You can call their tryst and its consequences a metaphor of two generations of Germans passing guilt from one to the next, but that doesn't explain why filmmakers Daldry and Hare luxuriated in the sex scenes -- and why it's so tastefully done audiences won't see it for the child pornography it is.
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