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单词 tric-trac
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tric-tracn.

/ˈtrɪkˈtrak/
Forms: Also 1600s– trick-track.
Etymology: < French tric-trac, †trique-trac (16th cent. in Littré; compare also jeux de triquetactz, Godefroy Compl.); so called from the clicking sound made by the pieces in playing the game: French tric-trac, an echoic word (15th cent.), applied to various clicking noises.
An old variety of backgammon: = tick-tack n. 2.
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faylesc1330
provinciala1500
Irish game1509
Irishc1530
queen's gamec1557
tick-tack1558
sice-ace1594
doublet1611
lurch1611
tric-trac1687
verquerea1700
chouette1935
sheshbesh1971
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vii. 41 The trictrac of the knocking Friars.]
1687 C. Sedley Bellamira iv. i I lost three sets at back-gammon, and a tout at trick-track.
1690 R. Davies Jrnl. (1857) 78 I taught them to play grand tric-trac.
1788 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1071/1 One of the kinds of trictrac used in Europe.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. iv. 88 He loved to play at cards and tric-trac with him.
1897 E. Dowden Hist. Fr. Lit. v. i. 336 The destiny of nations is satirically viewed as a vulgar game of trick-track.
attributive.1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda III. xxx. 315 There's Mrs. Delacour, leading miss Portman off into the trictrac cabinet.1819 C. Lamb Let. 25 Nov. (1935) II. 266 In the Tricktrack board, where the hits are figured.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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