Definition of "tennis-court" [tennis-court]

• An oblong edifice in which the game of tennis is played. See tennis, 1. (noun)
• The court upon which the game of lawn-tennis is played. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Tennis permits, which cost players $100 a year to play on public courts, don't specifically fund tennis-court maintenance."
• "Recently, French archaeologists uncovered the remains of an elegant 17th century indoor tennis-court at the Palace of Versailles."
• "Planning a vacation in southern France, wed come across an advertisement for a chalet with an ocean view and rented itand found, upon arrival, that the chalet was in a trailer park with a scum-covered swimming pool, a broken tennis-court net, and a system for heating hot water that required an engineering degree to understand."