Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Rendezvous

The place to which you are to repair, a meeting, a place of muster or call. Also used as a verb. (French, rendez, betake; vous, yourself.)

His house is a grand rendezvous of the élite of Paris. The Imperial Guard was ordered to rendezvous in the Champs de Mars.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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