battledore and shuttlecock
Noun
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Noun
battledore and shuttlecock (uncountable)
- (obsolete) An early version of the game badminton.
- 1847 — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch XV, p242 ↗
- But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adele and Pilot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock.
- 1847 — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch XV, p242 ↗
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