Hit or struck with a croquet mallet, especially passing a croquet ball through a wicket.
Past tense of 'croquet,' derived from French 'croquet' (a hook or crook). The game was adapted from a French game called 'pall-mall' in the mid-19th century.
Croquet was one of the first sports that allowed women to compete alongside men in Victorian society because it required strategy rather than brute strength—though women's clothing restrictions still made it unequal!
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