单词 | alquerque |
释义 | alquerquen. A game of Arabic origin, similar to draughts or nine-men's morris, played in Spain and other Spanish-speaking regions. ΚΠ 1879 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 8 124 An amplification of his predecessors' comparison of the game [sc. patolli] to alquerque, which seems to have been like our merells. 1919 Illustr. London News 15 Mar. 370/2 Chess was its [sc. draughts] mother, so to speak, and the Spanish game of Alquerque its father. 1969 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (ed. 2) II. iii. 57 The game was played on the alquerque board.., and each player had five men. 2005 R. Rodriguez-Rabin in S. Oboler & D. J. González Oxf. Encycl. Latinos & Latinas in U.S. (Online text) at Games Alquerque dates back over three thousand years and is similar to draughts... This board game is still played in much of Spain and in some places in Latin America. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1879 |
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