| 单词 | roque |
| 释义 | ▪ I. roque|rəʊk|
[An arbitrary alteration of croquet n.; cf. roquet n.]
A form of croquet played in the U.S., differing from croquet chiefly in the use of a hard-surfaced, embanked court, ten hoops, and short-handled mallets. Also attrib.
1899Boston Even. Transcript 15 Sept. 6/5 The players of the new croquet, having developed a new and scientific game, have adopted a new name, and call it roque. 1906Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republ. 30 Aug. 16 A 16-years-old lad who never before had played in a big⁓tournament won the national championship at roque. 1909Chicago Daily News 12 Aug. 8/1 They are holding a roque tournament at Norwich, Conn. 1924R. Lardner in Current Opinion July 128/2 ‘Good gracious!’ I said. ‘Imagine being married to a woman that plays five hundred like she does and drops her teeth on the roque court!’ 1954J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday viii. 55 Roque is a complicated kind of croquet. 1968Punch 9 Oct. 495 Archery and golf and rackets and roque and lawn tennis have all been in and out again. 1976Webster's Sports Dict. 356/2 Roque, a variation of croquet played with short-handled mallets on a hard-surfaced court.
▪ II. roque
obs. variant of roc. |
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