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单词 real tennis
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Definition of real tennis in English:

real tennis

noun
mass nounBritish
  • The original form of tennis, played with a solid ball on an enclosed court divided into equal but dissimilar halves, the service side (from which service is always delivered) and the hazard side (on which service is received). A similar game was played in monastery cloisters in the 11th century.

    North American term court tennis
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He can be passionate about beekeeping or real tennis or skiing or collecting old books; but buildings are merely assets to buy and sell.
    • He needed his own energy, particularly for the scene in which he plays real tennis against Dudley.
    • The Earl's penchant is for real tennis, the sport through which he met his wife.
    • In the early years of the reign of Henry VIII a law was passed in 1512 that banned the ordinary person from a whole range of games such as real tennis, as favoured by Henry VII, cards, dice, bowls and skittles.
    • Let me hasten to add, that's the smaller ball of real tennis, about 5-1/2 centimetres in diameter, not today's familiar lawn tennis ball.
 
 

Definition of real tennis in US English:

real tennis

nounri(ə)l ˈtɛnəsrē(ə)l ˈtenəs
British
  • The original form of tennis, played with a solid ball on an enclosed court divided into equal but dissimilar halves, the service side (from which service is always delivered) and the hazard side (on which service is received); court tennis.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He needed his own energy, particularly for the scene in which he plays real tennis against Dudley.
    • The Earl's penchant is for real tennis, the sport through which he met his wife.
    • In the early years of the reign of Henry VIII a law was passed in 1512 that banned the ordinary person from a whole range of games such as real tennis, as favoured by Henry VII, cards, dice, bowls and skittles.
    • Let me hasten to add, that's the smaller ball of real tennis, about 5-1/2 centimetres in diameter, not today's familiar lawn tennis ball.
    • He can be passionate about beekeeping or real tennis or skiing or collecting old books; but buildings are merely assets to buy and sell.
 
 
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