Associations to the word «Palestra»

Wiktionary

PALESTRA, noun. Alternative form of palaestra

Dictionary definition

PALESTRA, noun. A public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope