pachisi

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  1. noun An ancient game of India similar to backgammon that uses cowrie shells instead of dice.

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  • He had his evenings for the pachisi games. —  When Egypt Went Broke
  • Xoa had come in from the kitchen and was setting out a small table on which the pachisi board was ready for the evening's regular recreation. —  When Egypt Went Broke
  • In the court a portion of the marble pavement is made to represent a pachisi or chess board, and it is said the game was played with slave girls, who were used instead of the customary chessmen. —  Travels in the Far East
  • Near the recreation building is the famous pachisi or chess board, similar to the one at Agra, where Akbar and his vizier, sitting opposite, marshalled the slave girls to and fro. —  Travels in the Far East
  • The game of the Hindoos, called pachisi, is played upon a cross-shaped board or cloth; it is a combination of checkers and draughts, with the throwing of dice, the dice determining the number of moves; when the Spaniards entered Mexico they found the Aztecs playing a game called patolli, identical with the Hindoo pachisi, on a similar cross-shaped board. —  Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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  1. Hindi pacīsī, from pacīs, twenty-five : Sanskrit pañca, five; see penkwe in Indo-European roots + Sanskrit viṁśatiḥ, twenty; see wīkm̥tī- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also parchisi, parcheesi; from Hindustani pachchīsī, a game played on a kind of cloth chess-board with cowries for dice, and so named from the highest throw, which is twenty-five, from pachchīs, pachīs, twenty-five, from Sanskrit pancha vinçati, twenty-five: pancha = English five; vinçati = English twenty.
 

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