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bide tryst en · VERB
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(UK, archaic, dialectal) To wait for a person at the appointed place and time.
"You walk late, sir," said I, as we met a second time.
"I bide tryste," was the reply, "and so I think do you, Mr Osbaldistone."
1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 165:
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keep tryst