Definition of "rendezvous"

The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.

1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39

You might think it's foolish / This chancy rendezvous / (You might think) You might think I'm crazy / (All I want) All I want is you

1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City‎, performed by The Cars

an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers

1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.

The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.

1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707

A rendeuous, a home to fly unto

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]

At Boston in New England, they were joined by two regiments of provincials; and about four thousand men, consisting of American planters, Palatines, and Indians, rendezvoused at Albany, in order to march by land into Canada, while the fleet sailed up the river of that name.

1760–1765, Tobias Smollett, The History of England‎, volume 2

In the entrance-hall, a surprising number of opera-goers have already rendezvoused.

2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 392