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tennis court oath

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables
ten-nis -court oath
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An oath taken on 20 June 1789 by the members of the French Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established"; pivotal in the French Revolution.

Inflected Forms

the Tennis Court Oath (canonical)

Questions

What does tennis court oath mean?
An oath taken on 20 June 1789 by the members of the French Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established"; pivotal in the French Revolution.

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