trysting place

noun

1. a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trysting place¹

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

Of the three, it was Emily who most loved the wild moors, and made them the trysting place for Heathcliff and Cathy in her novel “Wuthering Heights.”

From Seattle Times

He soon discovers that the fancy house that was their trysting place isn’t Madeline’s.

From New York Times

It was evident that he had touched her body, that the two of them had been sexually intimate inside a hollow tree they’d used as a trysting place in the forest.

From Literature

Dost remember twenty years aback--the trysting place under the Holmwood Oak?--Ah!

From Project Gutenberg

Well, I bedecked myself in my best and marched off in good time to the trysting place at the stage door.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• gathering place
• hangout
• meeting place
• watering hole