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Definition of Trysters
1. tryster [n] - See also: tryster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trysters
Literary usage of Trysters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... Eustacia and Wildeve, the expected trysters, did not appear. He pursued
precisely the same course yet four nights longer, and without success. ..."
2. Good Words edited by Norman Macleod, Donald Macleod (1880)
"The tree was old, and in summer the grass beneath it was quite trodden away by
the feet of the many trysters and idlers who haunted the spot. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of John Payne by John Payne (1902)
"Come swift, sweet sisters I Our witch-wife trysters Will soon in the distance
fade and flee: Wide-winged we travel through the thin foam-ravel, ..."
4. Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song by Robert Hartley Cromek, Allan Cunningham, William Gillespie (1880)
"The old cottars (the trysters of other years) are mostly dead in good old age;
and their children are pursuing the bustle of commerce, frequently in foreign ..."
5. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Those who attended these meetings were called the trysters. Ibid. Introd. xxi.
The word Trist, Tryst, is also used for a market. A.Bor. ..."
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