tennis-playern.
One who plays at lawn tennis or (formerly) real tennis.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > player or participant
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > player
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netter1932
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 488/2 Teneys pleyare, teniludius.
?a1645 A. Stafford Just Apol. in Life Blessed Virgin (1860) p. xlviii The best Tennis-player living cannot shew his cunning.
1674 W. Temple Let. to Sir J. Temple in Wks. (1731) II. 297 We were both together young Travellers and Tennis Players in France.
1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes ii. iii. 74 We have..authority to prove that Henry the Seventh was a tennis player.
1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 304/2 The champion tennis-players.
Derivatives
ˈtennis-playing n. playing at tennis.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [adjective]
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1441 Court Roll Pershore, Worc. (Westminster Ch. Munim.) Nullus eorum..frequentabit ludum qui vocatur the tenyse playng in communi via domini Regis nec in aliquo loco privato ibidem.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 2 §5 Where..tenys pleiyng bowles Clossh or any other unlawfull game..shalbe used.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E8 They spend it in dicing, carding, bowling, tennise plaieng.
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