I daresay, that he is playing trictrac at Metz this moment. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
And he sent for experts of chess and cards448 and trictrac. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
It is one of those imitative words which are to be found in all languages; as, for example, in the French we have sens dessus dessous, tintamarre, trictrac, tonnerre, bombe. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
"Play at whist, commerce, backgammon, trictrac or chess but never at quinze, lou, brag, faro, hazard or any games of chance, and if you are pressed to play always make the fashionable excuse of being tied up not to play at such and such a game.". From Wordnik.com. [Mother Knows Best] Reference
Thou wilt but be ennuyd to play trictrac with my old father. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
In the mean time, Mrs Delacour, unconscious of the curiosity she had excited, was speaking to Belinda in the trictrac cabinet. From Wordnik.com. [Belinda] Reference
In the mean time, Mrs. Delacour, unconscious of the curiosity she had excited, was speaking to Belinda in the trictrac cabinet. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 03] Reference
But look, there's Mrs. Delacour leading Miss Portman off into the trictrac cabinet, with a face full of business -- her hand in hers -- Lord, I did not know they were on that footing!. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 03] Reference
But look, there's Mrs Delacour leading Miss Portman off into the trictrac cabinet, with a face full of business – her hand in hers – Lord, I did not know they were on that footing!. From Wordnik.com. [Belinda] Reference
Mrs. Holloway, the silly lady, during that part of the conversation from which she might have acquired some knowledge, had retired to the further end of the room to a game at trictrac with an obsequious chaplain. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 01] Reference
My director answers for me, and plays a game at trictrac into the bargain with me.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
Marie Antoinette was no more queen there, it is true, but she was the lady of the palace to whom the highest respect was shown, and who therefore had been constrained expressly and strictly to order that at her entrance into the drawing-rooms the ladies would not interrupt the piece begun on the piano, nor stand up if seated at their embroidery, and that the gentlemen would keep on undisturbed their billiard-party or their game at trictrac. From Wordnik.com. [Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon] Reference
My director answers for me, and plays a game at trictrac into the bargain with me. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
At the French trictrac. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference
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