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Rendezvous

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means an agreed meeting, especially at a set time and place
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Stage 1 of 2
rendez-vous
French · medieval
"present yourselves, a meeting point"
literally present yourselves, an imperative used to arrange a meeting
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Stage 2 of 2
rendezvous
English · 1590s
"a planned meeting at an agreed time and place"
settled as the English word for a planned meeting
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