Both Uses of
tryst
in
Washington Square
- Mrs. Penniman also was silent; Morris Townsend had told her that her niece preferred, unromantically, an interview in a chintz-covered parlour to a sentimental tryst beside a fountain sheeted with dead leaves, and she was lost in wonderment at the oddity—almost the perversity— of the choice.†
Chpt 9
- She made an appointment with Morris Townsend to meet him there, and she went to the tryst at dusk, enveloped in an impenetrable veil.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(tryst) a rendezvous (meeting) -- especially a secret one between lovers