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| ten·nis [ ténniss ] |
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game with ball, rackets, and net: a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players, who use rackets to hit a ball back and forth over a net stretched across a marked-out court
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| [14th century. Probably < Old French tenez "hold!", form of tenir "to hold, receive"] |
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