concept
Rendez-vous
rendez-vous
also: свидание
French for 'a meeting' or romantic assignation; used untranslated in the Russian original as an affectation, footnoted with its own gloss in the source text.
Reading notes
- A Lost Cause §8 rendez-vous
French for 'a meeting'; the narrator drops the French word in mock-fashionable style, glossed in the original text with its own footnote -- a stock affectation of the era's provincial dandy.