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• Badminton House — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Badminton House en el siglo XIX …   Wikipedia Español

• Badminton House — is a large country house in Gloucestershire, England, and has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century. The architect William Kent renovated and extended the house in the Palladian style in the early 18th… …   Wikipedia

• badminton — [ badmintɔn ] n. m. • 1882; mot angl. , nom d un château ♦ Anglic. Jeu de volant apparenté au tennis. ● badminton nom masculin (mot anglais, de Badminton House) Sport pratiqué sur un court, et qui consiste à se renvoyer, dans les limites de ce… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Badminton (disambiguation) — Badminton may refer to: *Badminton, Gloucestershire, a village in England giving its name to **Badminton House, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort in Gloucestershire, home of the Badminton Horse Trials *Badminton, the sport, named after Badminton …   Wikipedia

• Badminton — Sn (ein wettkampfmäßiges Federballspiel) per. Wortschatz fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. badminton, so bezeichnet nach Badminton House, dem Landsitz des Duke of Beaufort in Gloucestershire, wo das aus Indien stammende Spiel zuerst… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

• Badminton Horse Trials — Badminton Horse Tri|als, the an important British horse riding competition held every year at Badminton House in southwest England …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• badminton — 1874, from Badminton House, name of Gloucestershire estate of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game first was played in England, mid 19c., having been picked up by British officers from Indian poona. The place name is O.E. Badimyncgtun (972),… …   Etymology dictionary

• Badminton — infobox sport name = Badminton imagesize = 200px caption = The Danish badminton player Peter Gade union = Badminton World Federation nickname = first = 18th century registered = clubs = contact = No team = Single or doubles mgender = category =… …   Wikipedia

• Badminton Horse Trials — right|thumb|Gemma Tattersall and Jesters Quest jump the Open Ditch during the cross country phase of Badminton Horse Trials 2007.The Badminton Horse Trials is a three day event, one of only six annual four star, CCI****, events as classified by… …   Wikipedia

• badminton — /bad min tn/, n. a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with light rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a high net that divides the court in half. See illus. under racket. [1835 45; named after… …   Universalium