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backgammon
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "backgammon":- They were not all engaged in idle sport, but were playing backgammon and chess or dice, and were evidently agreeably employed. - "Four Arthurian Romances "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot"", Chretien DeTroyes.
- The library of a dozen books, the backgammon board, the tiny berths, the shady side of the cabin, are all jostled for in a manner to make one greatly envy the power of the snail; at the moment I would willingly have given up some of my human dignity for the privilege of creeping into a shell of my own. - "Domestic Manners of the Americans", Fanny Trollope.
- There were the trestles where one could play at ball and knuckle- bone, or chance and mumchance; another, where evens and odds and backgammon proved tempting. - "The Tangled Skein", Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy.