释义 |
tennis-playing, ppl. a. [f. as tennis-player.] That plays (lawn-)tennis.
1956H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) vi. 58 The long, tennis-playing, suburban legs. 1965M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate ii. 27 Her energetic tennis-playing grandmother..sat on the arm of a chair. 1979D. Eden Storrington Papers iv. 47 ‘The new governess..arrived this afternoon.’ ‘Promising?’.. ‘No more tennis-playing amazons.’ |