lawn tennis
Americannoun
noun
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tennis played on a grass court
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the formal name for tennis
Etymology
Origin of lawn tennis
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Lawn tennis is won as much with the feet as the hands, and the 6ft 6in Croatian spent the first set of the first semi-final looking like someone had attached wheels to his shoes.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2016
Sir John Lavery, 1885Glasgow Museums Resource Centre Lawn tennis was still quite new when this young woman hit the ball back across the net.
From The Guardian • May 19, 2012
Lawn tennis, rooted in the 16th-century game of royal courts and patented in England in 1874 by a retired army cavalry officer, was from the start bound up with notions of character-building.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2011
Lawn tennis, subscription clubs for, 196; part of revolt of sons and daughters of middle class, 196.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
Lawn tennis is the outgrowth of the old French game of the courts of the early Louis.
From The Art of Lawn Tennis by Tilden, William (Bill) Tatem
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