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  • noun See pachisi.

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  • noun Alternative form of pachisi.

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  • noun an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board

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Examples

  • He and Dicey were playing a game of parchesi on the rug in front of the fire.

    Dicey's Song Cynthia Voigt 1982

  • He and Dicey were playing a game of parchesi on the rug in front of the fire.

    Dicey's Song Cynthia Voigt 1982

  • He and Dicey were playing a game of parchesi on the rug in front of the fire.

    Dicey's Song Cynthia Voigt 1982

  • Whereupon they fell to playing parchesi and eating sweetmeats.

    Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

  • They re-entered the house; Marty was even able to call up a giggle and winked broadly at Nelson as he hung up his hat and looked up the parchesi board and the rest of the outfit for that popular game.

    The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

  • In the evening they played euchre, or hearts, or parchesi; Susan and

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • 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.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • In the brightly illuminated room beyond the hall Helena and Gregory were playing parchesi -- Gregory firmly grasped the cup from which he intently rolled the dice; Helena shook the fair hair from her eyes and, it immediately developed, moved a pink marker farther than proper.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Gregory's undeviating scrutiny, with the conviction that parchesi was not conspicuously different from the other more resounding movements of the world and its affairs.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • The amusements was crokinole and parchesi and checkers and the like of that.

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

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