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单词 tennis-play
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tennis-playn.

Etymology: < tennis n. + play n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtennis-play.
1. The game of tennis n. 1; playing at tennis.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > playing
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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?
2. = tennis court n. 1. Obsolete.
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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.
in combination.1530 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ii. 101 Item, for Anthony Annesley, tenesplay-keper..vj s viij d.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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