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badminton1874, from Badminton House, name of Gloucestershire estate of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game first was played in England, mid-19c., having been picked up by British officers from Indian poona. T [..]
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badmintonsport where teams of one or two use rackets to volley a shuttlecock over a high net that divides the court in half.
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badmintona game rather like tennis, in which you use a smaller racket and a shuttlecock
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badminton(n) a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
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