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tryst /trɪst, traɪst/ noun [countable] literary RELATIONSHIPa meeting between lovers in a secret place or at a secret time – often used humorously 幽会〔常为幽默用法〕Examples from the Corpustryst• Vernacular cosmopolitans are compelled to make a tryst with cultural translation as an act of survival.• 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.• secret hotel trysts• 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.• By July the Minister's secret trysts were laid bare.• She ventured to go back to the tree of the tryst, the mulberry with the shining white fruit.Origin tryst (1300-1400) Old French triste “place from which someone watches”, probably from a Scandinavian languagetryst nounChinese Corpus a place secret lovers or in a meeting at between |