rendezvous
/ˈɹɑndəˌvu/ noun C1- A meeting or date. · Near-synonym: assignation (hyponymous in modern use)· I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
- An agreement to meet at a certain place and time. · Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
- A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
- The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
Plural rendezvous
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“And you, too,” said he, “come, if you like, monsieur; you have a claim, being almost one of the family, and I will give as many rendezvous of that kind as I can find persons willing to accept them.”
“The carriage is our rendezvous, then?”
La Jeune Amélie was first at the rendezvous.
“No, not precisely; however, I think it was something very like a rendezvous.”
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