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game of the goose en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (historical) A board game, popular in the 16th century, in which players moved pieces around a track based on dice rolls.
    • Labyrinths disappeared from churches in the later Middle Ages, but exactly at the time that the game of the goose was coming into fashion in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries the creation of labyrinths in gardens became widespread. 1996, Carolyn W. White, Essays in European History, page 228:

Translations (1)

fr jeu de l'oie (board game)