| 单词 |
tennis-play |
| 释义 |
ˈtennis-play
[f. tennis n. + play n.]
1. The game of tennis (sense 1); playing at tennis.
c1440Promp. Parv. 68/1 Chace of tenys pley, or oþyr lyke, sistencia. 1530Palsgr. 280/1 Tennysplay, jeu de la paulme. 1594Nashe Christ's T. To Rdr., Prouided it bee not a Tennice-play of Pots and Cups, like the Centaurs feast. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxv. (1839) 249 He that useth able seconds at tennis play, placed in their proper stations. 1918G. 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 1. Obs.
1507–8Court of Frank-pledge, Oxford, Four men presented for keeping tenysplayes, an illegal sport. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1223/1 In Wisbich was a garden, a tennise plaie, & a bowling allie walled about with bricke.
Comb.1530in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. ii. 101 Item, for Anthony Annesley, tenesplay-keper vj s viij d. |
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