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Word: shesh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...frontier is a rusting jumble of barbed wire and garbage, and the village has the same sleepy, slightly disheveled air that it had before. Men wearing the keffiyeh, the traditional black and white checkered headdress, sit around in circles drinking muddy Turkish coffee and playing shesh-besh (backgammon). The muezzin of the large Moslem mosque snoozes on a straw mat, waking periodically to give the wailing call to prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: We Must Have Liberty' | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

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