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Three Random Words: une piécette (f) = small coin = piécette par piécette le trictrac (m) = backgammon le grisbi (m) = stash, loot in Lettres de ma Terrasse, Tante Marie-Francoise | Permalink
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Three Random Words: une piécette (f) = small coin = piécette par piécette le trictrac (m) = backgammon le grisbi (m) = stash, loot in Lettres de ma Terrasse, Tante Marie-Francoise | Permalink
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And he sent for experts of chess and cards448 and trictrac.
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"Play at whist, commerce, backgammon, trictrac or chess but never at quinze, lou, brag, faro, hazard or any games of chance, and if you are pressed to play always make the fashionable excuse of being tied up not to play at such and such a game."
Mother Knows Best Heather Carroll 2008
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Celtic, which bear some slight similarity to the notes of the cock and the cuckoo; tintamarre, trictrac, in French; alali, in Greek; lupus, in Latin, etc. But these imitative words are exceedingly few.
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It is one of those imitative words which are to be found in all languages; as, for example, in the French we have sens dessus dessous, tintamarre, trictrac, tonnerre, bombe.
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Thou wilt but be ennuyd to play trictrac with my old father.
The Newcomes 2006
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I could not believe my eyes, for who should be announced this evening as I was playing trictrac with the Bishop of Évreux but my son!
The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001
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I could not believe my eyes, for who should be announced this evening as I was playing trictrac with the Bishop of Évreux but my son!
The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001
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He doesn't even play trictrac, only piquet, and he says 'tyrant' when he should say 'king.'
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
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