croquet
noun/ˈkrəʊkeɪ/
/krəʊˈkeɪ/
[uncountable]- a game played on grass in which players use mallets (= sticks with a block of wood at one end) to knock wooden balls through a series of hoops (= curved wires)CultureCroquet became popular among the upper classes in Britain in the 1850s, and is still often regarded as an upper-class game today. The All England Croquet Club began at Wimbledon in 1868. The four countries where croquet is most played are Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the US.Topics Sports: other sportsc2, Games and toysc2Word Originmid 19th cent.: perhaps a dialect form of French crochet ‘hook’.
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