rendez-vous

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!

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

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.de.vu/

• Audio (France):

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rendez-vous m (plural rendez-vous)

1. date

   Synonym: (informal) rencard

2. rendezvous
3. appointment

   Synonym: (informal) rencard

rendez-vous

1. second-person plural imperative of se rendre

• “rendez-vous” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “rendez-vous” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “rendez-vous”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous.

• IPA^(key): /ˌran.dɛˈvu/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: ren‧dez-‧vous

rendez-vous n (indeclinable)

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

• rendez-vous in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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