game of the goose
game of the goose proper noun: a board game, popular in the 16th century, in which players moved pieces around a track based on dice rolls.
Proper noun
game of the goose
- 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
Questions about game of the goose
- What does game of the goose mean?
- Game of the goose means a board game, popular in the 16th century, in which players moved pieces around a track based on dice rolls.
- What part of speech is game of the goose?
- Game of the goose is a proper noun.
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