1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TAMBURELLO (called in Piedmont Talasso), a court game popular in Italy, particularly in the northern provinces. It is a modification of the ancient game of Pallone (q.v.), bearing the same general relation to it as Squash does to Racquets. A fullsized Tamburello Court, which need not be as true and even as that for Pallone, is 90 to 100 yards long and half as wide, divided laterally through the middle by a line (cordino) into two equal spaces, the batluta and the rimessa. Three players regularly form a side, each c…
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