Rendezvoused

Rendezvoused

MultiMedia:

Sentence Definition:

When a mobile noun rendezvoused, it met with another mobile noun at a specific time or place; usually military topic

Model Sentences:

She rendezvoused with ships 60 miles out and escorted 15 vessels to Trinity Harbor.

Two days later McClellan's advanced troops fought a sharp combat at Williamsburg and the Army of the Potomac rendezvoused on the Chickahominy with its base at White House on the Pamunkey (May 7).

The troops had rendezvoused during the summer (of 1758) at Ray's Town (now Bedford, Pennsylvania), and at Loyalhanna creek (now in Westmoreland county).

Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes:

Root = Rendez

Prefix = None

Suffix = ed - past tense

Vous - you go

Rendez - "to present" + vous - "you"

Other Forms:

Rendezvouses

Rendezvousing

Etymology:

Rendezvous - Middle French

Verb Intransitive

1590s, "place appointed for assembling of troops”

Now, French way to say "meeting" or "date."

Less used now, military used it most to communicate and plan with peers