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From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that this was ridiculous�the only dice he had ever owned had come with parchesi and backgammon sets.

From Time Magazine Archive

You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The amusements was crokinole and parchesi and checkers and the like of that.

From The Depot Master by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Whereupon they fell to playing parchesi and eating sweetmeats.

From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French

In a frantic effort to forget its hollowness it takes to ping-pong, parchesi and progressive euchre, and seeks to lose itself and find solace and consolation in tiddle-dy-winks.

From Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others by Hubbard, Elbert