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RENDEZVOUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 97 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RENDEZVOUS , a

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PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

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MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting appointed or arranged for the assembling of troops,

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SHIPS

ships or persons . The word was adopted in

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ENGLISH

English at the end of the 16th

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century from the

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French substantival use of the imperative rendez

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VOUS

vous, i.e .

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