Definition of Trictrac

1. a form of backgammon [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trictrac

tricot
tricoteuse
tricoteuses
tricotine
tricotines
tricots
tricounty
tricresol
tricresyl phosphate
tricritical
tricriticalities
tricriticality
tricrotic
tricrotism
tricrotous
trictrac (current term)
trictracs
triculate
tricultural
triculture
tricultures
tricurvate
tricuspid
tricuspid area
tricuspid atresia
tricuspid incompetence
tricuspid insufficiency
tricuspid murmur
tricuspid orifice
tricuspid stenosis

Literary usage of Trictrac

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1833)
"... by Partisan out of trictrac 2 Five to 4 on the winner, who was claimed, and б to 2 agst Spencer. MATCH. ..."

2. Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature: With Historical Notes on Other by Willard Fiske (1905)
"A passage ascribed to the poet Villon in the same century, to which we'shall also refer later on, contains the word trictrac, but not as the denomination of ..."

3. Oral Method with French: In Three Parts : Part Second, Containing 50 by Jean Gustave Keetels (1869)
"Au trictrac, at backgammon. LE VAURIEN, the good-for- LE JEU, ... Aimez- vous le jeu de trictrac? Jouez-vous au trictrac ? N'aimez-vous pas le jeu ? ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1841)
"The King's brothers play whist; the Queen plays trictrac in a window, ... The Queen played at trictrac in the ball room. There was no gaiety. ..."

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