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▪ I. polo1|ˈpəʊləʊ|
[a. Baltī polo: cf. Tibetan pulu.]
1. A game of Eastern origin resembling hockey, played on horseback with long-handled clubs and a wooden ball.
An ancient game of the East; still played in the upper Indus valley, and in Manipur. Introduced first at Calcutta and a little later (c 1864) in Punjab. Played in England in July 1871. (Yule.)
[1842G. T. Vigne Trav. Kashmir II. 289 At Shighur I first saw the game of the Chaughán... It is in fact hockey on horse⁓back... The ball, which is larger than a cricket ball, is only a globe made of a knot of willow wood, and is called in Tibeti Pulu.] 1872Daily News 20 July, The ball of contention once cast into the open field, Polo was entered upon in real earnest. 1875Browning Inn Album i. 333 Polo, Tent-pegging, Hurlingham, the Rink, I leave all these delights. 1886Athenæum 18 Sept. 367/3 The first historical event recorded in this volume is the death at polo of the Sultan Aikbar.
2. Also applied to various similar games derived from this, as water polo, rink polo (see quots.).
1883Boston Daily Globe 18 Nov. 6/2 (heading) The Winslow Rules Governing Polo on Skates. Ibid. 6/3 The American Roller..[is] to be published in the interests of roller skating, polo, and other popular sports. 1884Graphic 30 Aug. 219/1 Polo proper may be defined as hockey on horseback, or rather pony-back, and..water polo is hockey on the water. 1885Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. 29 Oct. 3/3 The game of polo at the Skating Academy last evening..was an active game. 1890in Webster. 1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1906H. P. Burchell Official Roller Skating Guide 108 (Advt.), The Spalding ‘Rink Polo’ stick is made of the best..material.
3. Short for polo hat, polo-neck, etc.
1905Daily Chron. 30 Jan. 8/1 Among the Victorian revivals..are various items of dress from the sixties... The small round hat that the French milliners call the ‘polo’ and we in this country term the pork-pie, is a detail in point. 1967Harper's Bazaar Sept. 45 The neck..high everywhere—emphasized by polos, wrapped, petal or stand-up collars. 1975Country Life 29 May 1424/1 For summer, we are now diving into silky polos. 1976Woman's Weekly 6 Nov. 36/2 (Advt.), Worn here over classic Polo in black, red, antrim, green, or cassis.
4. attrib. and Comb., as polo-ball, polo boot, polo club, polo-ground, polo-match, polo-player, polo-playing, polo-pony, polo-stick; also designating garments with a polo-neck, as polo jersey, polo-jumper, polo sweater (hence polo-sweatered adj.); polo cloth, a soft, loosely-woven camel's-hair cloth; polo coat, a type of camel's-hair coat; polo collar, (a) (see quot. 1960); (b) = polo neck (a); hence polo-collared adj.; polo hat, a small round hat worn esp. in the latter part of the nineteenth century; polo-neck, (a) a high, close-fitting roll collar; also attrib.; (b) a jersey with such a collar; hence polo-necked adj; polo shirt, (a) a shirt of the kind worn by polo-players; (b) a shirt having a polo-neck.
1895Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 478/1 The regulation *polo-ball is of bass-wood, three inches in diameter, and painted white. Lightness and toughness are necessary.
1894Country Gentlemen's Catal. 154 Hunting top-boots & butcher boots. *Polo boots. 1963E. H. Edwards Saddlery xx. 149 Should the animal require greater protection..any of the heavier polo boots..may be more suitable.
1910Dry Goods Reporter 22 Oct. 21 (Advt.), The polo coat, 55 inches long, made in a complete line of mixtures..as well as the regular *polo cloth. 1919Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 23 Dec. 689/2 Polo cloth. Worumbo Mfg. Co., Bath, Me. Claims use since Jan. 10, 1910. Woolen goods in the piece. 1926Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 13 Jan. 7/6 (Advt.), Plush and Polo Cloth Hats for Boys. Smart little shapes in black plush and light lovat polo cloth.
1879Scribner's Monthly June 309/2 Three summers ago, some young men in New York formed the *Polo Club, and built a sumptuous house at Fordham, with grounds especially laid out for the game. 1885Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. 1 Nov. 8/4 (heading) The Roller Skating Season... The members of the Chelsea Polo Club..have been engaged to form a Providence team. 1892Edin. Rev. Jan. 40 In 1872 the Monmouthshire Polo Club was established. 1935Encycl. Sports 468/1 The first polo club in London was at Lillie Bridge. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 788/2 British officers..began to establish polo clubs in India.
1910*Polo coat [see polo cloth]. 1953M. McCarthy Groves of Academe iii. 45 She jumped up..and seized her polo coat from the coat-rack.
1913C. Mackenzie Sinister Street I. ii. v. 209 In his blue serge suit, wearing what the shops called a *Polo or Shakespeare collar, Michael felt more at ease. 1937A. Thirkell Summer Half ix. 253 They take off their detachable polo collars and look just like us, only nastier. 1960C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. English Costume 169/1 Polo collar. C. 1899. A starched white stand-fall collar, the fronts sloping apart.
1955J. Cannan Long Shadows vi. 102 I've corduroys..and a *polo-collared jersey. 1968Guardian 22 Aug. 7/4 The current fashion for men to wear polo-collared shirts even with formal wear.
1895Kipling in Cosmopolitan July 303 The hard, dusty Umballa *polo-ground was lined with thousands of soldiers. 1897Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 7/1 Lieutenant Rattray galloped in from the Khar polo-ground to take command of the post. 1971Shankar's Weekly (Delhi) 18 Apr. 19/3 A vaguely green building on the other side of the polo-ground.
1905Daily Chron. 30 Jan. 8/4 (Advt.), A three-quarters redingote..and the revived *polo hat.
1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 479/2 The long coat and linen dusters which every *polo-hitter affects.
1929D. L. Moore Pandora's Letter Box v. 92 *Polo jerseys were abandoned by normal men..because they were seen on many who were known to be unmanly. 1960Woman 23 Apr. 73/4 What gave him most joy was a yellow polo jersey that Frances knitted for him.
1937A. Christie Death on Nile vi. 77 He was wearing..a high-necked *polo jumper. 1949‘M. Innes’ Journeying Boy viii. 94 Two undergraduates in demodé polo-jumpers.
1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral i. 5 A grey jumper with a *polo neck. 1951‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow ix. 96, I changed it for a polo-neck sweater. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 48 One [woman] may look very chic in a polo neck and another may look as if she were a kennel-maid manqué. 1971Vogue 15 Oct. 73 Black poloneck, sleeves and back of thin black stripes. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 128 He was wearing a fashionable black polo-neck jersey (fashionable, that is, among the weasly middle-aged). 1973‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird iv. 55 Wife and bambinos in suede jackets and knitted jackets and..enough polo necks to outfit the entire British Raj.
1955M. Hastings Cork & Serpent vi. 79 She had changed into a pair of black ski trousers and a *polo-necked sweater. 1974A. Price Other Paths to Glory ii. i. 111 An equally pink polo-necked sweater.
1885A. Brassey The Trades 221 Two or three good nags, which are used as chargers and *polo-ponies.
1920F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise (1921) i. ii. 44 The faces indistinct above the *polo shirts. 1938‘E. Queen’ Four of Hearts (1939) i. i. 11 You left out this wine-coloured polo shirt. 1974R. B. Parker God save Child (1975) ii. 16 Six polo shirts of different colors with the sleeves neatly folded under. 1979R. Gillespie Crossword Mystery iv. 100 He threw on a polo shirt and slacks.
1895Kipling Day's Work (1898) 241 (Maltese Cat) The native officers held bundles of *polo-sticks, long cane-handled mallets.
1950A. Koestler in God that Failed i. 58 A member of the intelligentsia could never become a real proletarian, but his duty was to become as nearly one as he could. Some tried to achieve this by forsaking neckties, by wearing *polo sweaters and black fingernails. 1955N. Fitzgerald House is Falling ix. 156, I always wear..flannel bags, a polo sweater. 1963Polo-sweater [see Chelsea 4].
1950A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 136 The *polo-sweatered organist.
Hence ˈpoloist, a player of polo.
1891Blackw. Mag. May 651 The veteran poloist. 1898Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 5/2 As a horseman and poloist he had not many rivals.
▪ II. polo2|ˈpəʊləʊ|
[Sp.]
An Andalusian folk-dance, or the music which accompanies this dance.
1883Grove Dict. Mus. III. 9/2 Polo, a Spanish dance accompanied by singing, which took its origin in Andalusia. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 374/2 Other provincial dances now in existence are..the Palotéa, the Polo, the Gallegada, [etc.]. 1926D. C. Parker Georges Bizet iv. 233 Gaudier..asserts that Bizet has..made use of a polo, sung by a serenading student. 1934W. Starkie Spanish Raggle-Taggle vii. 76 She began to play a medley of Spanish airs—polos, boleros, tangos, malagueñas. 1967‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing (ed. 2) vi. 81 The Polo dates back to the ancient and unaccompanied Andalucian songs. |