Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old English game, formerly known as lawnbilliards.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An old English game; -- called also
lawn billiards .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The game of
trucco orlawn billiards .
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Examples
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Vamos todos juntar as 300 mil moedas necessárias ao troco para os Maiorana.
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The troco-ground, with its green turf as smooth as a billiard-table, is just as it was in the days of King James.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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There in the centre is the iron ring through which the lords and dames drove the heavy wooden troco-balls; and if you go into the garden-hall through that arched corridor you will see the actual balls that they used, and the long poles, with a kind of iron cup at their ends, with which the players pushed them -- forerunners of the modern croquet-box that lies beside them.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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She moved forward and sat on the broad stone balustrade which, topping the buttressed masonry that supports it above the long downward grass slope of the park, encloses the troco-ground on the south.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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Now, as she passed out under the archway on to the square lawn of the troco-ground, bare-headed, in her pale dress, a sweet seriousness filling all her mind, even as the sweet summer twilight filled all the valley and veiled the gleaming surface of the Long Water far below, she felt wholly in sympathy with the aspect and sentiment of the place.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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The softly green square of the troco-ground, the brilliant beds and borders of the brick-walled gardens, the gray flags of the great terrace -- its rows of little orange trees, heavy with flower and fruit, set in blue painted tubs -- lay below him in a blaze of August sunshine.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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Her voice came, with a fine gladness yet soft richness of tone, across that intervening triangular space of sloping turf upon which terrace and troco-ground alike looked down.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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Too tired to rest herself by reading, she wandered out on the troco-ground followed by Camp.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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Then from the troco-ground I beheld that which looked promising, coquetting with Dickie's yearlings.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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A nightingale sang in the big, Portugal laurel at the corner of the troco-ground, and was answered by another singer from the coppice, across the valley, bordering the trout stream that feeds the Long
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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