gossima

English

Etymology

From Gossima, a trademark registered by Jacques on 16 July 1891 (trademark number 157,615).

Noun

gossima (uncountable)

1. A precursor to table tennis, played with hard rubber balls.
   • 2010, Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz, Everything You Know Is Pong, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 4:

     Already we've seen early hallmarks of the twentieth century: colonial decay, cultural appropriation, and competing trademarks. Next up was the rise of the immigrant underclass. World War I shattered the gossima delusions of the aristocracy, and the Great Depression humbled the rest.

   • [2010 July 17, Howard Jacobson, “Whiff! Whaff! The beautiful game may be coming home”, in The Independent‎^[1], retrieved 2020-11-24:

     In fact table tennis was also called gossima in the early days, and, given that Gossamer is the brand name of a condom, the Mayor of London missed out on an even better joke, perhaps calculating that the Chinese wouldn't get it.]

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