is it rendevoux or rendevouz?
our homecoming theme was paris rendevoux (?)
and i dunno if its rendevoux or rendevouz.
help please?
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ren·dez·vous (ränd-v, -d-)
n. pl. ren·dez·vous (-vz)
1. A meeting at a prearranged time and place. See Synonyms at engagement.
2. A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
3. A popular gathering place: The café is a favorite rendezvous for artists.
4. Aerospace The process of bringing two spacecraft together.
tr. & intr.v. ren·dez·voused (-vd), ren·dez·vous·ing (-vng), ren·dez·vous (-vz)
To bring or come together at a rendezvous.
[French, from the phrase rendez vous, present yourselves, from Old French : rendez, second person pl. imperative of rendre, to present; see render + vous, yourselves, you (from Latin vs, you; see ws in Indo-European roots).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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rendezvous
noun
1. a meeting planned at a certain time and place
2. a place where people meet; “he was waiting for them at the rendezvous”
3. a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex [syn: tryst]
Vous I think is just the formal “you”.
I think the other part is a case of Rendre
se rendre Verb, pronominal (a) to surrender, give oneself up; se ~ à to go to, get to
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