- rendezvous (n.)
- 1590s, "place for assembling of troops," from Middle French rendez-vous, noun use of rendez vous "present yourselves," from rendez, imperative of rendre "present" + vous "you." General sense of "appointed place of meeting" is attested from 1590s.
- rendezvous (v.)
- 1640s, from rendezvous (n.).