trictrac

/ ˈtrɪkˌtræk /

noun

1. a game similar to backgammon

Word History and Origins

Origin of trictrac¹

C17: from French, imitative

Example Sentences

“Companies don’t get any access to their employees’ data,” said Martin Blinder, Trictrac CEO.

From Reuters

“Companies don’t get any access to their employees’ data,” said Martin Blinder, Trictrac CEO.

From Reuters

In the company of a few ladies and officers they played picquet, ombre and trictrac--they smoked, and thus passed the time until eleven o'clock; at that hour everything was officially ended.

From Project Gutenberg

He amused Josephine, and although eighty years of age, could play trictrac and talk well on any subject.

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Whist and piquet soon grow stale in such a house and with such surroundings, and even trictrac with the old bishop of Evreux becomes tedious.

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