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sheshbesh|ˈʃɛʃbɛʃ|
Also shesh-besh.
[Turk., f. Pers. shash six + Turk. beş five.]
A variety of backgammon played in the Middle East. Also attrib.
1971L. Davidson Smith's Gazelle ii. 37 The sheshbesh players pressed his arm in sympathy. 1975C. A. Haddad Moroccan (1977) iv. 44 My friends would come over..to play sheshbesh. 1977H. Kaplan Damascus Cover (1978) vii. 67 In this part of the world we have been playing sheshbesh, what you call backgammon, for nearly three thousand years. |