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lacrosse
[ luh-kraws, -kros ]
noun
- a game, originated by Indians of North America, in which two 10-member teams attempt to send a small ball into each other's netted goal, each player being equipped with a crosse or stick at the end of which is a netted pocket for catching, carrying, or throwing the ball.
lacrosse
/ ləˈkrɒs /
noun
- a ball game invented by Native Americans, now played by two teams who try to propel a ball into each other's goal by means of long-handled hooked sticks that are loosely strung with a kind of netted pouch
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Origin of lacrosse1
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Example Sentences
Teen Wolf even features a relationship between a gay lacrosse player and a male werewolf.
They convey life forces of trees from which their lacrosse sticks were made.
If for nothing else, lacrosse matters because it reminds us the Iroquois still exist.
From this all-consuming cycle of pain and pleasure, though, one sport stands as an exception: lacrosse.
In the late 1800s, white players formed field lacrosse clubs and excluded Natives.
Two days later Indians gathered at Fort Michilimackinac to engage in a game of lacrosse.
"She made it a hockey versus lacrosse contest, and of course we plumped for hockey," murmured Elsie Bellamy.
Far behind us lay the LaCrosse valley through which a slender river ran, while before us towered wind-worn cliffs of stone.
A couple of hours' march brought us to LaCrosse, the great city whose wonders I had longed to confront.
It is now called "lacrosse," but its name in the language of the Iroquois Indians was O-ta-da-jish-qua-age.
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