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ˈtennis-court
[f. tennis n. + court n. 4.]
1. The enclosed quadrangular area, or building, in which the game of real tennis is played. Also fig. and Comb. esp. tennis-court oath, the pledge given on June 20, 1789, by members of the States General of France that they would not separate before a constitution was granted (see quot. 1911).
1564in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 143 Boards to make a tennyse court {pstlg}1. 0. 0. 1611Cotgr., Blouse, a close Tennis court, or a Tennis court in a hall, hauing a house on either side to serue on. 1630in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. (1896) XXX. 57 The tinneis courtis thairof and all utheris houses. 1763Brit. Mag. IV. 55 It was agreed to build a new theatre, where the Tennis-court then stood, in Lincoln's-inn-fields. 1791Mackintosh Vind. Gallicæ Wks. 1846 III. 24 They were summoned by their President to a Tennis-Court, where they were reduced to hold their assembly. 1878J. Marshall Annals of Tennis 114 One of the greatest obstacles to the spreading of the love of Tennis has always been the scarcity of Tennis-courts. [Ibid. 113 Their number [in England] at the present moment is twenty-one. ]
fig.1605Earl Stirling Alexand. Trag. v. i, I thinke the world is but a Tenis-court where Fortune doth play States, tosse men for Balls. 1738G. Lillo Marina i. ii, Winds and waters, In their vast tennis-court, have, as a ball, Used me to make them sport.
Comb.1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 21 But that the Tennis-Court-keeper knowes better than I. a1637B. Jonson Eng. Gram. viii. note, Sæpè tria coagmentantur nomina, ut, a foot-ball-player, a tennis-court-keeper. 1893L. Creighton First Hist. France xxvi. 231 The Tennis-Court Oath.—Under his [sc. Mirabeau's] guidance the Third estate now declared themselves the National Assembly. 1911H. A. Guerber Story Mod. France x. 55 The Third Estate met tumultuously in the Versailles Tennis Court, where..they bound themselves, by the famous ‘Tennis Court Oath’. 1959Listener 31 Dec. 1151/1 The integrity of Anatolia was the tennis-court oath of the Kemalist revolution. 1977Socialist Press 2 Mar. 6/3 Faced with procedural fencing on the part of the King's ministers and the Court, they declare themselves a ‘National Assembly’ and vow (the ‘tennis-court oath’, June 20th) not to depart until a constitution is drawn up.
2. The plot of ground prepared and marked out for lawn-tennis.
1881‘Rita’ My Lady Coquette i, I wanted to see the tennis-courts made. |