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fistiana
[ fis-tee-an-uh, -ah-nuh ]
noun
- the sport or world of boxing:
one of fistiana's most colorful characters.
Word History and Origins
Origin of fistiana1
Example Sentences
As for the tappings of claret, the punchings of conks and bread-baskets, and the tremendous sloggings that went on in this neighbourhood in those virile times, are they not set forth with much circumstantial detail in the pages of “Fistiana” and “Boxiana”?
Bell Rings Again at Yankee Stadium Fistiana, in all its raffish glory, is back in .
As the last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana."
Mr. Ditto had grown out of a clerkship at Gus Neihiem's cigar-store into the realm of fistiana.
"A fight, a fight! form a ring!" and the proposition for a combat a la fistiana was received with joy by every Englishman present.
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