pachisi
noun
a board game, originated in ancient India, in which four players advance four pieces each along a route on a cross-shaped board toward a center square by throws of cowrie shells or dice.
parchesi,
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a variation of
pachisi.
Example Sentences
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You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine.
From Time Magazine Archive
"As far as I'm concerned," Blodgett said, "Mundy can play parchesi in his off time."
From The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp
Among the parchesi players there was a hurried consultation and then one of them looked up.
From The Camp Fire Girls' Careers by Margaret Vandercook
She left the parchesi board, and crossed the room to the piano, where she stood turning over sheets of music with a successful appearance of critical interest.
From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer
"One would think, Henrietta," sadly sighed Newbegin, "that the good people at home imagined that we spent our time playing parchesi and the Mansion of Happiness, and reading Sandford and Merton."
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
