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tryst

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5 lettersPronunciation /tɹɪst/Part of speech nounSorted rsttyStarts with TEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)

Word origin

From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French triste, tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust, see there for more.

Used in a sentence

  • And Vivien, like the tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile, / Made answer, either eyelid wet with tears: […]
  • A silence supreme and altogether European. Shutters drawn, shops barred. A red glow here and there to mark a tryst.
  • But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.

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