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/rˈɑndɪvˌu/ Listen

noun

Rendezvous n. (pl. rendezvouses) (Rare in the plural)

A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet. "An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers."

Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment. "The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough."

A meeting by appointment.

Retreat; refuge. (Obs.)

verb

Rendezvous v. t. To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.

Rendezvous v. i. (past & past part. rendezvoused; pres. part. rendezvousing) To assemble or meet at a particular place.

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... it served as a temporary relief from the dread of hearing the worst, merely postponed the full knowledge of a disaster which Mary V could not bear to contemplate. They drove to a rendezvous previously agreed upon with Bill Hayden and gleaned what news the boys had to tell. Which was no news at all. Their search had been as barren of results as the sheriff's, and Mary V's eyes, when they turned from face to face, were hard to meet. Little Curley, who had been Johnny ...

— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower

... among themselves was at an end. Of course I had no means of proving what I said, or I would have gone direct to the king and charged him with the outrage. As it was I gained nothing by my pains. He has accompanied this French division to Genoa; but when we meet at Sicily, where the two armies are to rendezvous, I will bring the matter before the king, as the fact that his page was certainly concerned in it must be taken as showing that he was ...

— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty

... be. The design was thwarted by one of those petty accidents which play so large a part in war. Stuart had been instructed to lead the advance. The only brigade at his disposal had not yet come up into line, but a message had been sent to appoint a rendezvous, and it was expected to reach Verdiersville, five miles from Raccoon Ford, on the night of the 17th. Stuart's message, however, was not sufficiently explicit. Nothing was said of the exigencies of the situation; and the brigadier, ...

— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... route." In preparation for the march westward to the foothills of the Rockies the three divisions "A," "B," and "C" that had been quartered for the winter at Lower Fort Garry left that point on June 7, 1874, and were at the rendezvous at Dufferin near the boundary line to greet the Commissioner and the three divisions "D," "E," and "F," which had come through as ...

— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth

... receives a larger share of all this immigration—nothing is more natural, for the young metropolis of the hills is the miner's rendezvous, being in the center of the ...

— Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road - or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills • Edward L. Wheeler

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