nine men's morris
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Noun
nine men's morris (uncountable)
- An ancient strategic board game for two players, each having nine pieces, and in which forming a row of three of one's own pieces earns the removal of one of the other player's pieces.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 149:
- The nine mens Morris is fild vp with mud, / And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene,
Related terms
- twelve men's morris
Translations
board game
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