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palestra
or 貹··ٰ
[ puh-les-truh ]
noun
Greek Antiquity.
plural palestras, palestrae
- a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
palestra
/ pəˈlɛstrə; -ˈliː- /
noun
- the usual US spelling of palaestra
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of palestra1
1375–1425; late Middle English palestre < Latin palaestra a wrestling school, place of exercise < Greek 貹íٰ, equivalent to palais-, variant stem of 貹í to wrestle + -tra feminine noun suffix of place
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The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.
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But when we leave the child "free as a man" in the palestra of his own intelligence, his type changes entirely.
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Afterward I challenged him to the palestra; and he wrestled and closed with me several times alone; I fancied that I might succeed in this way.
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The statue represents an athlete rubbing his arm with a flesh scraper to remove the oil and sand of the palestra, or exercising ground.
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Suppose that at the palestra somebody hath all to-torn thee with XX.
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