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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tryst
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ secret hotel trysts
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By July the Minister's secret trysts were laid bare.
▪ My master was still asleep, as he had been the previous evening when I returned from my love tryst.
▪ She could never get accustomed to motel trysts.
▪ She ventured to go back to the tree of the tryst, the mulberry with the shining white fruit.
▪ The letter invites Leonardo to a tryst in the grove where Terentia is to meet Lycander.
▪ Tyrone fleeing from Maria's hotel tryst was equally unlikely.
▪ Vernacular cosmopolitans are compelled to make a tryst with cultural translation as an act of survival.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tryst

Tryst \Tryst\, v. t. [OE. tristen, trysten. See Tryst, n.]

  1. To trust. [Obs.]

  2. To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [Scot.]
    --Burns.

Tryst

Tryst \Tryst\, v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.]

Tryst

Tryst \Tryst\, n. [OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. treysta to make trusty, fr. traust confidence, security. See Trust, n.]

  1. Trust. [Obs.]

  2. 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.
    --Tennyson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tryst

late 14c., "appointment to meet at a certain time and place," from Old French tristre "waiting place, appointed station in hunting," probably from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse treysta "to trust, make firm" (see trust (v.)). The notion would be "place one waits trustingly." As a verb, late 14c. Related: Trysting.

Wiktionary
tryst

n. 1 A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time. 2 (context obsolete English) A mutual agreement, a covenant. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place. 2 (context transitive English) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.). 3 (context intransitive English) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.

WordNet
tryst
  1. n. a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex [syn: rendezvous]

  2. a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) [syn: assignation]

Wikipedia
Tryst

A tryst is a prearranged meeting or assignation, especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.

The term may also refer to:

  • Tryst (nightclub), a club at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel
  • Tryst (novel), a 1939 novel by Elswyth Thane
  • Tryst (play), a 2006 play by Karoline Leach
  • Tryst, IIT Delhi, an annual science and technology festival in Delhi, India
  • Tryst (film), a 1994 film featuring Andy Romano
  • Tryst, a building associated with a church, e.g. in Pitlochry, Scotland
  • Trysts, a 2001 collection of short stories by Steve Berman
  • "Tryst", art song by composer John Ireland
Tryst (play)

Tryst is a romantic play set in Edwardian London. Tryst had its debut on April 6, 2006 at the Promenade Theatre in New York.

Tryst, by British playwright Karoline Leach, has been described as a "subversion of Edwardian melodrama", in which the stereotypical actions and responses of the characters are used to ask usually unasked questions about the motivations and power-relationships of the characters.

The 2006 off-Broadway premiere starred Maxwell Caulfield and Amelia Campbell.

The play was then produced in 2007 at the Black Dahlia Theater in Los Angeles, starring Gabriel Olds and Deborah Puette. The play got positive reviews 1 2, and was nominated for an Ovation for Best Production, Intimate Theater. Its director, Robin Larsen, was also nominated for an Ovation Award and won the Garland Award for Best Director. Mr. Olds received 6 nominations for Best Actor, and 2 wins: an LA Weekly Theater Award and one from the LADCC. Ms. Puette received Best Lead Actress nominations from the Ovations, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Garland Awards and was awarded the LA Weekly Award. Since then the play has been produced in numerous venues around the world, notably at the Westport Country Playhouse in 2008, and at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City in 2011.

Tryst (novel)

Tryst, written in 1939 by Elswyth Thane, is a story of two people and a seemingly ordinary home. While a quick summary may make it sound like a Horror novel, it actually borders on Mystery and Romance.

Usage examples of "tryst".

But it had not been Lily who had kept this tryst but two Afghani tribesmen.

Caitirin Bekke had trysted in secret with Fourth Lord Shen Escovor, her Malerrisi lover.

Amazon between our trysts, and breaks off the affair when she finds herself pregnant, but reinstitutes it some years later, I forget why, but breaks it off finally when she and Proetus go vacationing in Italy, et cetera, I forget.

Linlithgow, and Nicholas, being an eident soul, had a boat trysted at the Borrowstounness, and by this time doubtless will be beating down the Forth on his way to a kinder country.

It was during his absences that Mrs Grabble and Mr Simplon kept what Lockhart called their trysts.

The building was a converted police command post from the early days of Islendian colonization, and had numerous closets, lockers and offices, most now converted into open space, some left as lockable cubbies for trysts.

At the moment a consort of viols and woodwinds played for those who wished to dance, but lutanists and harpists were also scattered in remote corners and alcoves to set the proper mood for trysts.

His fireplaces seemed to give no heat, a tryst with an octoroon girl no solace.

Once, Lily had gotten stuck when Diva Rosaline and some suitor decided to have a midnight tryst.

It was time to cut short our telephone tryst, her act of touchless infidelity.

Consumed by jealousy, he was sure she had trysted with Wulfstan the night he found her.

On some of those nights Cormac and Samaire trysted, and, even more seldom and with greater care, during some days.

In a little while someone would smash the window and turn the building into a trysting place, with or without the consent of his companions.

They dont want to be used as an esoteric trysting place any more than we want them to.

Fullerton would kill himself because you knew he frequented a homosexual trysting place?