roquen.
/rəʊk/, U.S. /roʊk/ A form of croquet played in the United States on a court surrounded by a bank and using ten hoops and short-handled mallets.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > games resembling croquet > [noun]
closh1477
lawn billiards1873
troco1882
roque1899
golf-croquet1920
1899 Chicago Tribune 21 Aug. 4/6 (headline) Croquet now called ‘roque’.
1899 Boston Evening Transcript 15 Sept. 6/5 The players of the new croquet, having developed a new and scientific game, have adopted a new name, and call it roque.
1906 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 30 Aug. 16 A 16-years-old lad who never before had played in a big~tournament won the national championship at roque.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday viii. 55 Roque is a complicated kind of croquet.
1968 Punch 9 Oct. 495 Archery and golf and rackets and roque and lawn tennis have all been in and out again.
2002 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 26 June 8 Roque, a meld of billiards and croquet, fascinated the city about 1912.
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1899 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. (Advertiser Suppl.) 6 The official organ of the National Roque Association.
1909 Chicago Daily News 12 Aug. 8/1 They are holding a roque tournament at Norwich, Conn.
1909 Rep. Board Educ. State of Connecticut App. 532 For an object we use a roque mallet.
1924 R. Lardner in Current Opinion July 128/2 ‘Good gracious!’ I said. ‘Imagine being married to a woman that plays five hundred like she does and drops her teeth on the roque court!’
2002 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 26 June 8 A roque stadium stood here for 34 years, until it was leveled to build a parking lot.
2006 A. Scheid Downtown Pasadena's Early Archit. iv. 35 A roque court, a horseshoe pitch, and a lawn bowling green with clubhouse are surviving reminders of the tourist era in the park.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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