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1825 Sporting Mag. 15 346 Appointments have been substantiated into fixtures.

1826 Sporting Mag. 18 111 Owthorpe—not the fixture of that name in Nottinghamshire.

1862 ‘Scrutator’ Country Gentleman II. iii. 46 Our next fixture is made already for Frampton Wood.

1869 Times 26 Feb. 10/2 Fixtures of the principal..yachting clubs.

1882 Daily News 4 Mar. Bristol Wool Fair and the opening of the Colonial sales in London. These important ‘fixtures’ had been looked forward to.

1886 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. May 173/1 A neat fixture card from the Dublin..Club.

1890 E. Dowson Let. 11 Feb. (1967) 136 I hope to have it complete for your criticism when you come here on Thursday. For you will come—must come... Let me have a card to-morrow to acquaint me if it is a fixture.

1905 Strand Mag. Sept. 298/1 We always take it last on our fixture-list.

1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. vii. 638 A gilt mirror..stuck round with the fixture cards of the university and the college.

1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves vi. 71 ‘The fact is, Sir Roderick is being rather troublesome.’ ‘Thinks I'm not a good bet? Wants to scratch the fixture? Well, perhaps he's right.’

1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 453 The ‘fixture card’ is sent to all members of a hunt and tells them what coverts are to be drawn on what days.

1955 Times 5 Aug. 4/5 Although their fixture list includes as many as 13 schools, they have not been beaten by another school since July, 1953.

1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo ix. 161 The annual fixture in which one tribe comes over to steal its neighbours' cows, the return match being played for the attackers' women.