■ noun a game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is hit back and forth across a net.
Origin
C19: named after Badminton in SW England, country seat of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played.
■ noun a game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is hit back and forth across a net.
Origin
C19: named after Badminton in SW England, country seat of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played.
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