tryste

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tryste (plural trystes)

  1. Obsolete form of tryst.
    • 1819, Larkin, Sketch of a Tour in the Highlands of Scotland, through Perthshire, Argyleshire, and Inverness-shire, in September and October, 1818[1], page 35:
      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.
    • 1840, J.G.Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott Bart: Complete in One Volume[2], page 6:
      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.
    • 1841 March 4, “Appleton’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art: Miscellany”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[3], page 265:
      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.

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