rendez-vous

In my Mind, every Virtue that could adorn it was centered; it was the Rendez-vous of every good Quality and of every noble sentiment.

1790, Jane Austen, Love and Freindship^([sic])

THE Subscriber has opened a Recruiting Rendez-vous in the village of Middlebury, for the reception of Recruits for the 31st regt. U. S. infantry, and invites the able-bodied and patriotic young men of the vicinity to repair to the Standard of their Country—erected at his quarters, where they may become entitled to One Hundred and Twenty-four Dollars BOUNTY;

1814 August 17, Columbian Patriot, volume I, number 51, column 4

They made a brilliant entre’e into the cafe’—a general place of rendez-vous for the students and officers when they were not at daggers drawn.

1837 September 30, “The Duel”, in Maumee Express, volume I, number 26, Maumee City, Ohio, column 4