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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1513
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Palestral(l, -ale, a.1 Also: palustrall, -ale. [ME. (once) palestral (Chaucer), f. late ME. (Lydgate) and e.m.E. palestre, palastre, palester, wrestling-school, also, wrestling, athletics, F. palestre (12th c. in Littré), L. palæstra.] Pertaining to wrestling or to athletics generally; athletic. (Only in Douglas' Æneid.) —1513 Doug. i. Prol. 174.
The lusty gamys and plays palustrall That is ourhippit quyte and left behynd 1513 Ib. iii. iv. 136.
Our falloschip excers palestral [v.rr. -ale, -ustrale] play … Nakyt wreslyng and struglyng at nyce punte 1513 Ib. vi. x. 34.
