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ˈtennis-ˌplayer
[f. as prec.]
One who plays at lawn-tennis or (formerly) real tennis.
c1440Promp. Parv. 488/2 Teneys pleyare, teniludius. 1635Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 106 The best Tennis-player living cannot shew his cunning. 1674Temple Let. to Sir J. Temple Wks. 1731 II. 297 We were both together young Travellers and Tennis Players in France. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. ii. iii. (1876) 161 We have..authority to prove that Henry VII was a tennis player. 1884Harper's Mag. Jan. 304/2 The champion tennis-players.
So ˈtennis-playing, playing at tennis.
1441[see tennis 1]. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 2 §5 Where..tenys pleiyng bowles Clossh or any other unlawfull game..shalbe used. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 33 They spend it in dicing, carding, bowling, tennise plaieng. |