[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Real Tennis"

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real tennis (OED 1880)

1875 Edinburgh Review Jan. 55 (Google Books)

A wooden wall of this height, say 3 ft. 6 in. in the lawn game, very nearly represents the virtual enclosure of the real tennis-court.

Fred Shapiro


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