[Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Polo"

[Shapiro, Fred]

The author of this book was Horace Hayman Wilson.

Fred Shapiro


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polo (OED 1872)

1841 Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab vol. II, p. 22 (Google Books)

This, it appeared, was the playground of the village for the game of polo, for presently the Raja arrived on horseback with about forty persons, all mounted and armed with rackets.


Fred Shapiro


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