palaestra
Americannoun
noun
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
And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare!
From Charmides by Jowett, Benjamin
Literature received no such emphasis in the elementary schools of Rome as in those of the Greeks, and the palaestra of the Greeks was not reproduced at Rome.
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
Inside a palaestra, the peristyle ought to be laid out as described above.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
Whether the habits of the palaestra are suitable to them is more doubtful, for the ordinary gymnastic is a sleepy sort of thing, and if left off suddenly is apt to endanger health.
From The Republic by Jowett, Benjamin
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