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  • noun retronym an indoor racket sport from which the modern game of tennis (lawn tennis) is descended

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  • noun an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. court paume
  2. court tennis
  3. courte paume
  4. royal tennis
  5. sport of kings

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. lawn tennis
  2. tennis

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  • qroqqa commented on the word real tennis

    So called from being the real, authentic game of tennis, played for hundreds of years, as opposed to the newly-invented sphairistike or lawn tennis.

    The term 'real tennis' is first known in an 1880 letter of George Eliot; the variant 'royal tennis' is attested from 1902, originally an Australian term, either the origin or a result of a folk etymology.

    August 21, 2008