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verbkeep tryst (third-person singular simple present keeps tryst, present participle keeping tryst, simple past and past participle kept tryst)
present singular third person keeps tryst · participle present keeping tryst · participle past kept tryst · past kept tryst
- UKarchaicdialectalTo wait for a person at the appointed place and time.
Mr. Venus undertook to produce it again in the morning, and to keep tryst with Mr. Wegg on Boffin's doorstep as the clock struck ten.
1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLCSynonyms: bide tryst
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verbTo wait for a person at the appointed place and time.
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