| 单词 | royal tennis |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroyal tennis royal tennis n. [ < royal adj. + tennis n., apparently as an alteration of earlier real tennis n. arising from folk-etymological identification of the first element of that compound as real adj.1] chiefly Australian = real tennis n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] tennisc1400 real tennis1880 royal tennis1886 court tennis1911 1886 Argus (Melbourne) 2 Oct. 11/8 Royal tennis... The annual matches for the intercolonial championship of this game will begin in the last week of October. 1889 Centennial Mag. (Austral.) Feb. 510/2 Royal Tennis, played in a large inclosed court, is as superior to Lawn Tennis as ‘Norma’ is to the ‘Waterman’. 1912 G. Inglis Sport & Pastime Austral. xii. 175 Tennis—or Royal Tennis as it is often called in Australia—was first introduced into the Commonwealth by Mr. S. S. Travers about 1875. 1977 Times 19 Aug. 12/8 Playing royal tennis at Hampton Court. 1991 New Yorker 16 Sept. 61/1 They call their sport court tennis in the United States, royal tennis in Australia, jeu de paume in France, and, most emphatically, real tennis in Britain. < as lemmas |
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