noun / verb
tryst
TRIST/trɪst/
A privately arranged meeting, especially between lovers.
The lovers meet by the garden gate for a private tryst.
Etymology
Old French tristre named a station where hunters waited for game. This became an appointment to meet at a set time and place, leading to the sense of a private meeting between lovers.
In context
Cromer, and that if I went at a certain hour at night to a seat upon the East Cliff, which he indicated, I should meet her there--that she had a tryst with a secret lover.
More examples
- The lovers tryst in the garden after dark.
- A letter reveals the place of their planned tryst.
- Their brief trysts become harder to conceal.
Forms
tryst · trysts · trysted · trysting
Similar words
- rendezvous
- A rendezvous is any arranged meeting; a tryst especially suggests a private romantic meeting.
- appointment
- An appointment is any arranged engagement; a tryst suggests secrecy or romance.