tryst
noun
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Pronunciation: /tɹɪst/ / /tɹaɪst/
noun
Etymology: 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.
- A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
“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.”
- A mutual agreement, a covenant.
- A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.
verb
Etymology: 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.
- To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
- To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
- To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
“He said he was jealous, and craved something to ease his care. 'It's but a small thing I ask,' says he, 'but it will make me a happy man, and nothing ever shall come atween us. Tryst wi' me for Beltane's E'en on the Sker sands, at the green link o' the burn where the sands begin, on the ebb o' the tide when midnight is by, but afore cockcrow. For,' said he, 'that was our forbears' tryst for true lovers, and wherefore no for you and me?'”