Definitions
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- n. Alternative spelling of bocce.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court
Etymologies
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Examples
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And I like how curling is related to other games that people play all over the world, some of them very old, such as boccie, boules, petanque, or lawn bowls - ingeniously adapted to a winter climate.
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"We want to include the seniors in events such as boccie tournaments.
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Not that the gang wasn't friendly; we shared a bottle of Johnny Walker Red that we had swaddled in a backpack for just such an occasion, resulting in an unusually cheery game of boccie on a tiny court carved out of the jungle.
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The sign's mosaic tiles are an ode to two Italian traditions: boccie and cooking.
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Banners honoring famous paisans like Pavarotti and DeNiro dress up the streets, while boccie is the big sport at Amici Park.
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It features baseball fields, boccie courts, playgrounds and handball courts.
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We're getting out the lawn games...boccie ball, badminton and croquet.
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These are details nearly as arcane to him as the rules of punctuation or boccie ball.
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Directly below him the old boccie court grown over with weeds.
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It's also related to boccie and petanque, two very old sports.
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