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A meeting fancy enough to pretend lateness is romantic, not rude.
means A planned meeting at a set time and place, especially one with a whiff of intrigue or romance.
from Borrowed whole from French, where 'rendez-vous' literally means 'present yourselves' — from the verb 'se rendre,' to betake oneself somewhere. It started life in French as a military and hunting term for a designated assembly point, then drifted into English in the 1500s-1600s carrying that same sense of 'be here, at this spot.' The romantic shading came later, as the word got borrowed for lovers' trysts and secret meetings — English happily kept the French spelling and pronunciation, which is why it still looks like it's wearing a little beret.
- origin
- French, literally present yourselves
- military use
- once meant a troop assembly point
- nasa reuse
- spacecraft docking maneuvers borrowed the term
- silent d
- the final s stays silent too