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Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks , made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...
Le volant (Battledore and Shuttlecock, Fantasy) Trompette et tambour (Trumpet and Drum, March) Les bulles de savon (Soap Bubbles, Rondo) Les quatre coins (Puss in the Corner, Esquisse) Colin-maillard (Blind Man's Bluff, Nocturne) Saute-mouton (Leap-frog, Caprice) Petit mari, petite femme (Little Husband, little wife, Duo) Le bal (The Ball, Gallop)
Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, [a] but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the expatriate officers of British India as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) [4] Its exact
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Feather shuttlecocks Plastic shuttlecock. A shuttlecock (also called a birdie or shuttle, or ball) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape formed by feathers or plastic (or a synthetic alternative) embedded into a rounded cork (or rubber) base. The shuttlecock's shape makes it extremely ...
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It seems to me, that every dictionary I've looked in, and all the top hits on Google, say that a shuttlecock is a name for the 'birdie' of badminton. This comes from the original game, shuttlecock and battledore, where the shuttlecock was the object hit back and forth and the battledore was the paddle used to hit it with.