<noun.location> he was waiting for them at the rendezvous
a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex
<noun.group> [ verb ]
meet at a rendezvous
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Rendezvous \Ren"dez*vous\ (r[e^]n"d[e^]*v[=oo] or r[aum]N"-; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rendezvoused} (-v[=oo]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rendezvousing} (-v[=oo]*[i^]ng).] To assemble or meet at a particular place.
Rendezvous \Ren"dez*vous\, v. t. To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled. --Echard.
Rendezvous \Ren"dez*vous\ (r?n"d?*v[=oo] or {r?n}"-; 277), n.; pl. {Rendezvouses} (r?n"d?-v[=oo]`z?z).
Note: [Rare in the plural.] [F. rendez-vous, properly, render yourselves, repair to a place. See {Render}.] 1. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers. --Sir W. Scott.
2. 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. --Clarendon.
3. A meeting by appointment. --Sprat.
4. Retreat; refuge. [Obs.] --Shak.
The plane took off Tuesday from Clark Air Base, 50 miles north of Manila, to take part in exercises, but it failed to rendezvous with other aircraft.
A rendezvous Sunday between Saudi marines and a company of the Marine's 3rd Light Armored Infantry marked the first time a regular U.S. Marine unit was allowed close to the Kuwaiti border.
"There are some rendezvous that you can't afford to miss," says Roland Deschamps, secretary-general of Arianespace.
A peasant guide takes a last swig of the moonshine that dangles in a plastic jug from his saddle and sets off with two reporters for a rendezvous with Shorty.
But Ms. Parton disliked the bubble-bath shot, and some of her fans disapproved of another element called "Dolly's Date," in which Ms. Parton (who is married) enacted a steamy rendezvous with a "hunk" celebrity guest.
After a short sleep he is with his first customer in Bedfordshire at 7am and then it is on to Mill Hill, North Wembley and Harrow. He stays in digs overnight and has a rendezvous arranged with a Grimsby fish merchant to top up his stock.
After his rendezvous with Ms. Wonderful turns sour, Jerry analyzes romance: "Women know what men want.
The Galileo spacecraft makes a rendezvous with Earth on Saturday, using the planet's gravity like a slingshot to hurl it along on its six-year journey to the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter.
The Bulka's Athens-based owner, Bacolistas and Sons, sent two tugs from Honolulu to rendezvous with the freighter by Monday and tow it, Hubbard said.
At this point, the agents suspected that Mr. Kabbani had entered the U.S. on foot to escape detection at the border and was trying to rendezvous with the men in the van.
All waited in vain to get in the club when they tried to rendezvous there on May 19.
In response to the letters, Mr. Thomson usually sends an autographed photo with a polite note, and rarely arranges a rendezvous.
A harbor pilot on his way to a rendezvous with the tanker tried to warn the ship it was heading into dangerous waters, but his radio message came too late, The New York Times reported in Tuesday's editions.
NASA hopes to get a close-up view for the first time of two asteroids, Gaspra and Ida, but has said the launch must be by mid-October to make the rendezvous.
Waite disappeared while bound for a rendezvous with the Islamic Jidah (Islamic holy war) captors of two American hostages _ Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press, and educator Thomas Sutherland.
Waite, 48, disappeared Jan. 20, 1987, after leaving his hotel in Moslem west Beirut for a rendezvous with the captors of two American hostages.
Afterward, the Soviet leader heads for talks with businessmen in Minneapolis and a rendezvous in San Francisco with former President Reagan and a meeting with South Korean President Roh Tae-woo on normalizing relations.
Officials said the early-morning sexual rendezvous took place in the guard towers, empty cells and the infirmary.
Mrs. Reed, 39, said she would wait for another call from the State Department on what plans she should make to leave for a rendezvous with her husband.
A detective called the number and set up a rendezvous with the man at a hotel, Imes said.