Meaning of Tryst | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
2. A mutual agreement, a covenant.
   obsolete
3. A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.
   Scotland, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst, then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?”

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