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rendez-vous (plural **rendez-vous)

  1. Alternative form of rendezvous.
    • 1790, Jane Austen, Love and Freindship[_sic_]:
      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.
    • 1814 August 17, Columbian Patriot‎[1], volume I, number 51, column 4:
      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;
    • 1837 September 30, “The Duel”, in Maumee Express‎[2], volume I, number 26, Maumee City, Ohio, 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.
    • 2007 September 23, “Suite Deal Spa Package”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 272, number 85, Boson, Mass., page 47:
      Escape for a romantic rendez-vous and be treated to this suite deal, too sweet to miss!

Nominalization of the second person plural imperative form of se rendre; see rendez and vous

rendez-vous m (invariable)

  1. date
    Synonym: (informal) rencard
  2. rendezvous
  3. appointment
    Synonym: (informal) rencard

rendez-vous

  1. second-person plural imperative of se rendre

Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous.

rendez-vous n (indeclinable)

  1. date (meeting with a lover or potential lover)

Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous. Doublet of randevu.

rendez-vous m (invariable)

  1. rendezvous (agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet)
  2. (Brazil) alternative form of randevu (“brothel”)

Borrowed from French rendez-vous.

rendez-vous n (plural rendez-vous-uri)

  1. date
  2. appointment

Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous.

rendez-vous m (plural **rendez-vous)

  1. (rare) rendezvous