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1556 Let. in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) iv. 159 Naming himself to be Erle of Devon, he hath, by spreading abroade of ranndevouse lres [= letters], and proclamacons, pcured as moch as in hym lay, to stirre the K. and Quene's Maties subjects, in those pts, to rebellion.

1582 R. Madox Register 24 June in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) App. 289 The Cape of Good Hope..was the best place of rende vow.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. 45 A place of Rendeuous or meeting for all such as trauell in Carauans from Tombuto.

a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 70 Their place of recourse, or rendezvous, when they acted their seeming extasies.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 49. ⁋4 The Coffee-house is the Place of Rendezvous to all that live near it.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. vi. 57 The first place of rendezvous should be the bay of port St. Julian.

1789 C. Smith Ethelinde V. vii. 145 She..was dressed, and waiting with impatience for the hour of rendezvous.

1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea vi. 99 The one chosen by the Poles for their point of rendezvous.

1847 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun x, in Wks. (1853) III. 20 St. Lucar being the port of rendezvous for the Peruvian expedition.

1881 Liverpool Mercury 15 Aug. 3/9 A committee of the Town Council is..co-operating with the military staff on questions of rendezvous in the meadows and public buildings.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 53/1 Could it be possible..that Gustav would..make the château a place of rendezvous for himself and his accomplices?

1957 J. M. Hamilton From Wilderness to Statehood i. ii. 8 The place of rendezvous was the east bank of the Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Missouri.

2004 Jrnl. Early Republic 24 566 The fire engines..seem to have served as hospitable points of rendezvous for the exhausted but elated rioters.