Tryste

Quick meaning: Tryste is a noun meaning Obsolete form of tryst.

Meaning

Obsolete form of tryst.

Example Sentences

With this sum, which it seems was at the time sufficient for the purpose, the master and servant set off to purchase a stock of sheep at Whitsun-Tryste, a fair held on a hill near Wooler in Northumberland.

A worthy highlander, lately gone to his rest, who in his day was the greatest sheep-farmer and cattle-breeder in the North, was accustomed at the Falkirk trystes, over his toddy in the evening, to hold forth to a sympathetic auditory in his favorite public-house, or “howff”, on the great dignity of his calling.

In the little village of Kirkmichael, before the late depopulation, a weekly market was regularly held and well attended, particularly by shoemakers from Athol, and vendors of bog fir from Badenach; and an annual sheep and cattle fair is still held there at Michaelmas, a few days before the Michaelmas tryste at Falkirk.

Word Forms

• trystes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tryst, trist, trye, encountre, tryal, kysse.

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