单词 | tennis-play |
释义 | tennis-playn. 1. The game of tennis n. 1; playing at tennis. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > playing tennis-playc1440 tennisinga1475 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 68/1 Chace of tenys pley, or oþyr lyke, sistencia. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 280/1 Tennysplay, jeu de la paulme. 1594 T. Nashe Christs Teares (new ed.) To Rdr. Prouided it bee not a Tennice-play of Pots and Cups, like the Centaurs feast. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxv. 136 He that useth able Seconds at Tennis play, placed in their proper stations. 1918 G. Frankau One of Them in Poet. Wks. (1923) II. xxiv. 143 Who in all Albion on that fateful day..Left not his office-work, his tennis-play, To read black Montmorency's slander-red lines? ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > court tennis-play1507 tennis court1564 jeu de paume1778 1507–8 Court of Frank-pledge, Oxford Four men presented for keeping tenysplayes, an illegal sport. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1854/2 In Wisbiche was a garden, a Tennise play, and a bowling alley walled aboute with bricke. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < |
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