battledore and shuttlecock

English

Noun

battledore and shuttlecock (uncountable)

(obsolete) An early version of the game badminton.
- 1847 — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch XV, p242
  But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adele and Pilot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock.

Translations

early version of badminton

Interlingue: rácket e volante

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