Brewer's: Palestra

(3 syl.). Either the act of wrestling, etc., or the place in which the Grecian youths practised athletic exercises. (Greek, pale, wrestling.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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