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palestra

or pa·laes·tra

[ puh-les-truh ]

noun

, Greek Antiquity.
, plural pa·les·tras, pa·les·trae [p, uh, -, les, -tree].
  1. a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.


palestra

/ pəˈlɛstrə; -ˈliː- /

noun

  1. the usual US spelling of palaestra
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of palestra1

1375–1425; late Middle English palestre < Latin palaestra a wrestling school, place of exercise < Greek palaístra, equivalent to palais-, variant stem of palaíein to wrestle + -tra feminine noun suffix of place
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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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