Other forms: trysts
A tryst is a secret meeting between lovers. A midnight tryst, arrange a tryst, keep the tryst.
It is literary and slightly arch, which is why journalists reach for it when they want to describe an affair without saying so. The word originally meant an appointed place in hunting, where the hunters waited — the secrecy and the romance came later. Note that it rhymes with wrist.
1nountrystA secret meeting between lovers.
“They met for a midnight tryst by the lake, hoping no one would see them.”
tryst is a meeting.
Old French triste meant an appointed waiting place in hunting, probably from a Norse word meaning to trust. Trust is a relative.
Proto-Indo-European
*deru-
Proto-Germanic
*traustą — trust, shelter
Old Norse
treysta — to make safe, secure
Old French
triste
Middle English
tryst
English, today
tryst
Built from
From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French triste, tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a gmq - source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic traustą (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European deru-, dreu-, drū- (“to be firm, be solid”). a doublet of trust, see there for more.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire