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‖ parcheesi, parchesi|paˈtʃiːsiː|
Also 8 pacheess; 9 pachchisi (erron. -chisi), 9– pachisi.
[ad. Hindī pach(ch)īsī, lit. ‘of pach(ch)īs', i.e. twenty-five; the standard form outside India now includes an intrusive r.]
A four-handed game played in India and subsequently also elsewhere, on a cruciform board or (more often) cloth, with six cowries for dice: so named from the highest throw, which is twenty-five. Also attrib. (A simplified form is known in Europe as ludo.)
1800Asiatic Ann. Reg., Misc. Tracts 314/2 In one square court the pavement is worked with squares, in the manner of the cloth used by the Indians for playing the game called Pacheess. 1867A. F. Bellasis in E. Falkener Games Anc. & Orient. (1892) 258 There is a gigantic pachishee board at the palace at Agra where the squares are inlaid with marble on a terrace. 1892Kipling & Balestier Naulahka 78 It seemed to him no extraordinary mark of court favour to play pachisi with the King. 1892E. Falkener Games Anc. & Orient. 257 Pachisi is the national game of India. 1892–3T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall & Winter 67/2 Games... Parcheesi, linen board, 50c. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 235/3 Royal Game of Parchesi complete..including..folding board,..8 dice,..and 16 counters. a1910‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1916) 37 John Tom Little Bear, in full Indian chief's costume, drew crowds away from the parchesi sociables and government ownership conversaziones. 1948C. McCullers Discovery of Christmas in Mademoiselle Sept., Budge..was too little to count straight, to play Parcheesi, to wipe himself. 1950O. Nash Family Reunion (1951) 15 They can't pass it in bridge or parchesi or backgammon. 1969L. Kennedy Very Lovely People i. 35 The first night we were there two girls came over with a parcheesi board, and for the next two months we played nothing but parcheesi. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVII. 108 This procedure was chosen over Vinacke's parchesi game and Gamson's simulated political convention to emphasize the relative importance of the subjects [sic] initial resources. 1972Listener 13 July 51/3, I was playing a lot of board games at home. We had Pachisi, Monopoly..Chinese chequers and what-not. |