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palestra
[ puh-les-truh ]
noun
- a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
palestra
/ pəˈlɛstrə; -ˈliː- /
Word History and Origins
Origin of palestra1
Example Sentences
In counseling and rehabilitating their clients, La Palestra staff advocate a more integrative understanding of how to heal.
PTL (Italian, n.)—the Italian translation for gym (palestra), tanning (tintarella), and laundry (lavanderia).
For many things there be, which we must conceit and apprehend, as though we had had to do with an antagonist at the palestra.
This wasnt a lovers bower; it was only a palestra, or an observatory.
The Spartan maidens were required to exercise in the palestra, almost naked, in the presence of men and strangers.
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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