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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
croquet
cro·quet [croquet croquets croqueted croqueting] BrE [ˈkrəʊkeɪ] NAmE [kroʊˈkeɪ] noun uncountable
a game played on grass in which players use wooden hammers (called ↑mallets) to knock wooden balls through a series of ↑hoops (= curved wires)
Word Origin:
mid 19th cent.: perhaps a dialect form of French crochet ‘hook’.
Culture:
Croquet 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.
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