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A date with enough secrecy to need its own code name.
means A secret, arranged meeting between lovers, usually at an agreed time and place.
from From Old French 'triste' or 'tristre,' a hunting term for an appointed station where hunters waited for game to be driven toward them. The word crossed into Middle English meaning an appointed meeting place, and over time narrowed from any arranged rendezvous to the specifically romantic, clandestine kind — the quarry simply changed from deer to sweethearts.
- origin
- Old French for an appointed meeting spot, often hunting
- tone shift
- Once referred to any rendezvous, now implies romance or scandal
- modern use
- Mostly reserved for affairs, not first dates