Patolli
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Patolli is a noun meaning A board game, similar to pachisi, played by the Aztecs.
Meaning
A board game, similar to pachisi, played by the Aztecs.
Example Sentences
There is also the resemblance between the Hindu game of pachesi and the Mexica patolli, so close as to be virtually identical.
Patolli is a Mesoamerican game so similar to South Asian pachisi that many anthropologists considered it evidence of a precolonial contact between the peoples of the Old and New Worlds (Figure 5.2).
Mesoamericans played a game called patolli, which has been likened to parcheesi.[…]Post-Conquest accounts also indicate patolli had religious meaning, and calendrical, numerological, cosmological, and astronomical symbolism determined the rules of play.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include patole, pachisi, pitarrilla, parchisi, parchesi, pok-ta-pok.
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