dambrod

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Sometimes they played at the dambrod, but more often they pulled down the blinds on London and talked of Thrums in their mother tongue.

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  • The term dambrod , which has already supplied materials for a good story, arises from adopting French terms into Scottish language, as dams were the pieces with which the game of draughts was played (Fr. dammes). Brod is board. —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • Sometimes they played at the dambrod, but more often they pulled down the blinds on London and talked of Thrums in their mother tongue. —  Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
  • He invited the doctor, who so obviously distrusted him, to drop in of an evening for a game at the dambrod (which they both abominated, but it was an easy excuse); he asked him confidentially to come in and see Aaron, who had been coughing last night; he put on all the airs of a hail-fellow-well-met, though they never became him, and sat awkwardly on his face. —  Tommy and Grizel
  • WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS JAMES M. BARRIE ACT I James Wylie is about to make a move on the dambrod, and in the little Scotch room there is an awful silence befitting the occasion. —  What Every Woman Knows
  • DAVID and ALICK return presently, looking as sly as if they had been discussing some move on the dambrod, as indeed they have DAVID [suddenly become genial]. —  What Every Woman Knows
 

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  1. Scots, also (accommodation to English board) damboard; from Swedish dambräde (= Danish dambræt), checker-board, from dam (= Danish dam), checkers (see dams), + bräde = Danish bræt, board: see board.
 

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