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pallone

po loh nee

  • n  an Italian game similar to tennis

  • Played like four-wall handball, kin to pelota, pallone and other Basque games, it was probably originated by bored debtors in Fleet Street prison about 1800.
  • In Italy the first words a newly arrived American learns is "Dammiil pallone" "Gimme the ball.
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