turnhalle
English
Etymology
German, from turnen (“to exercise, do gymnastics”) + Halle (“hall”).
Noun
turnhalle (plural turnhalles or turnhallen)
- A building used as a school of gymnastics.
- 2005, Kathryn M. Galchutt, The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968: Lutherans and Race in the Civil Rights Era:
- The Cincinnati Forty-eighters were the first emigres who established a Turnhalle, a recreation center for the development of mind and body.
- 2011, Peter N. Pero, Chicago's Pilsen Neighborhood, page 53:
- The Germans built turnhalles, and the Czechs created something similar called sokols.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for turnhalle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)