ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Paganica

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Paganica is a noun meaning The game itself.

Meaning

The game itself.

More Meanings

  1. (historical) A Roman ball stuffed with feathers, used in a game that is sometimes considered a precursor to golf (since early golf balls had a similar construction).

Example Sentences

An attempt, a rather lame one, however, has been made to prove that golf was known to the Romans, or at least that a game called Paganica resembled it.
Beginning with paganica in Ancient Rome, golf has had many ancestors in many distant lands, all similar in one way or another to the game we know today.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pallone, pizeball, playball, palla, carpetball, patball.

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