English Dictionary

game of the goose

固有名詞

歴史的

(historical) A board game, popular in the 16th century, in which players moved pieces around a track based on dice rolls.

日本語の意味

16世紀に人気を博した歴史的なボードゲームで、サイコロの出目に従って盤上の駒を進めるゲーム。

During the lecture on Renaissance leisure, the professor showed a hand-painted 16th-century board used to play the game of the goose.

ルネサンス期の娯楽に関する講義で、教授は手描きの16世紀の盤（サイコロを振って道に沿って駒を進める、いわゆるガチョウのすごろく）を見せた。

意味（1）

(historical) 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.