palaestra
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of palaestra
C16: via Latin from Greek palaistra, from palaiein to wrestle
Example Sentences
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Provincial towns such as Bath had their thermae, heated bathing complexes with splendid indoor pools and an attached palaestra for exercising in the revered Greek style.
From Slate • Jul. 24, 2012
As well try to be a pentathlos and perform all the five feats of the palaestra with the limbs of a nymph.
From Romola by Eliot, George
For children and youths under the ephebic age there was no practical regulation of schools or palaestra by the state.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
Very unlike our modern education, fully one half of a boy's school life, from eight to sixteen, was given to sports and games in another school under different teachers, known as the palaestra.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
The old exercises of the palaestra were continued, but running, wrestling, and boxing were much emphasized.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
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