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  • noun Common misspelling of rendezvous.
  • verb Common misspelling of rendezvous.

Etymologies

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A spelling of rendezvous that eliminates the silent z.

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Examples

  • It was some kind of rendevous code, but when she'd finished eating she removed a tiny silver vile from her hip pocket, carefully unscrewed the lid a challenge with no thumbs and poured a drop on the paper. . .it vanished immediately.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008

  • It was some kind of rendevous code, but when she'd finished eating she removed a tiny silver vile from her hip pocket, carefully unscrewed the lid a challenge with no thumbs and poured a drop on the paper. . .it vanished immediately.

    NO-HO - Nov. 16: Party With Your Bear or Raccoon or Whatever Day Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008

  • What: The event is patterned after an 18th century harvest festival or "rendevous" at a French and Native American trading outpost.

    unknown title 2009

  • These trappers would get together in "rendevous" during Summer months to trade, sell their furs, etc.

    Planet Mozilla 2009

  • Then test of rendevous and docking with a Shenzhou-8; an orbital boost check, undocking and return.

    China Space Update - NASA Watch 2009

  • You have the same bourgeois framework, the same convergence of characters on a risque rendevous and even a running gag about a speech defect that Feydeau shamelessly nicked for A Flea in Her Ear.

    Once Bitten – review 2011

  • With your wife out of the mansion how long before you sneak off to Argentina for a little rendevous.

    Sanford defends expensive travel, denies divorce 2009

  • Each flight did something new, longer duration, space walks, rendevous, robotic recon with surveyor, lunar orbiter and mariner flying by Mars.

    Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch 2009

  • How typical, a good old "family Values" politician, riding on the taxpayers backs, flying down to rendevous with is mistress on our dime, under the guise of "foreign relations".

    Sanford defends expensive travel, denies divorce 2009

  • A manned asteroid-rendevous mission would be very exciting and a great way to show off the versatility of Orion.

    Where Next? - NASA Watch 2009

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