Vocabulary Word
Word: rendezvous
Definition: meeting place; meeting at a set time or place; V.
Definition: meeting place; meeting at a set time or place; V.
Sentences Containing 'rendezvous'
The general rendezvous of this gang of miscreants was on the Arkansas side of the river, where they concealed their negroes in the morasses and cane brakes.
``No,''replied he;``I will not be caught like a fool at a first disclosure by a rendezvous under the clock, as they say at the opera balls.
``No, not precisely; however, I think it was something very like a rendezvous.''
The Frenchman asked for a rendezvous; Teresa gave him one only, instead of Teresa, it was Beppo who was on the steps of the church of San Giacomo.''
There grief might freely expend itself without being disturbed by the trifling loungers who came from a picnic party to visit Pere la Chaise, or by lovers who make it their rendezvous.
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