- a variation of trick-track.
trictrac
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of trictrac
C17: from French, imitative
Example Sentences
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He amused Josephine, and although eighty years of age, could play trictrac and talk well on any subject.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
The French name for backgammon is trictrac, imitative of the rattle of the dice.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
Whist and piquet soon grow stale in such a house and with such surroundings, and even trictrac with the old bishop of Evreux becomes tedious.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
Thou wilt but be ennuyd to play trictrac with my old father.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
"So come along, and ma and papa can play trictrac all the time."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)
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