单词 | pallone |
释义 | pallonen. Sport. In Italy: a game resembling a simple form of tennis, played with a large ball struck with a cylindrical wooden guard worn over the hand and wrist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > handball, etc. > [noun] > other handball games cache1444 hand in and hand out1478 cachepell1539 hand-out1540 knappan1573 wind-ball1578 balloon?1591 bord-and-cord1591 hurlingc1600 pize-balla1796 trigon1842 pallone1859 push-ball1895 throwball1895 punchball1908 wallyball1982 1859 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 485/1 Butthose who have seen pallone will not, perhaps, so much wonder at the Italians..when they remember that the French have turned them out of their only amphitheatre adapted for it, and left them only pazienza. 1865 A. L. Fisher (title) The game of pallone, from its origin to the present day historically considered. 1885 New Bk. Sports 90 Pallone, though a far simpler game [than tennis], is, to the layman, a pretty sight. 1906 Daily Chron. 10 Jan. 6/4 The whole population was out of doors.., the youths playing the national game of pallone, the older men discussing the politics of the commune. 1982 Rothmans Atlas World Sport 157/2 A form of tennis called pallone was played in piazzas throughout Italy during the sixteenth century. 2000 Opera Now Jan. 60/1 The enormous Arena Sferisterio, a semi-elliptical structure, built in 1829 and originally used for a ball game called Pallone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1859 |
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