(in ancient Greece or Rome) a public place devoted to the training of athletes
Word origin
C16: via Latin from Greek palaistra, from palaiein to wrestle
Examples of 'palaestrae' in a sentence
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The rollers used for smoothing the walks in palaestrae will serve as an example of this method.
Vitruvius, Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan Ten Books on Architecture (1914). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)