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prettygoodwordroque - n., a variation of croquet played with short-handled mallets on a hard court bounded by walls.
One syllable. From alteration of roquet (roh-KAY, the action of hitting an opponent's ball in croquet), which is itself an alteration of croquet. At the 1904 summer Olympics in St. Louis, roque was a medal event, though only U.S. players competed.
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One syllable. From alteration of roquet (roh-KAY, the action of hitting an opponent's ball in croquet), which is itself an alteration of croquet. At the 1904 summer Olympics in St. Louis, roque was a medal event, though only U.S. players competed.
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