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Definition of Matched game
1. Noun. An international championship match.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matched Game
Literary usage of Matched game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through the School: The Experiences of a Mill Boy in Securing an Education by Frederic Kenyon Brown (1912)
"... look on an incident that should become historic, like a Civil War or a French
Revolution: the first matched game ever played on the University grounds! ..."
2. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"Previous to a matched game the players would go through a course of stringent
fasting, bathing, and emetics. The latter were decoctions of the bark of ..."
3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"But this, in a well-matched game is no easy achievement, and often requires much
time, many doublings, detours, and exertions. I should have noticed, ..."
4. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"... each other as if at a matched game. In another direction he saw a magnificent
brigade going with the evident intention of driving the enemy from a wood. ..."
5. Play and Recreation for the Open Country by Henry Stoddard Curtis (1914)
"... less danger of unfair or rough conduct or quarreling. It does not take long
to make the children enthusiastic. A matched game or two with another school ..."
6. History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians by Horatio Bardwell Cushman (1899)
"''Every thing being now ready the play commenced, and it was admitted on all
sides to have been the closest and most evenly matched game ever witnessed by ..."
7. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1885)
"The same author also gives a glowing account of the other advantages of the county.
"For Hawkinge both on land and River it will hardly be matched. Game of ..."
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