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发帖数: 113 | 2 Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia[n
1] but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among
the British as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock.
("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".)[3] Its exact origin remains
obscure. The name derives from the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton House in
Gloucestershire,[4] but why or when remains unclear. As early as 1860, a
London toy dealer named Isaac Spratt published a booklet titled Badminton
Battledore—A New Game but unfortunately no copy has survived.[5] An 1863
article in The Cornhill Magazine describes badminton as "battledore and
shuttlecock played with sides, across a string suspended some five feet from
the ground".[6] |
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