Übersetzung für 'bilboquet' von Englisch nach Deutsch

bilboquet

Bilboquet {n}games

• The bilboquet or baluster (the object which looks like the bishop from a chess set) first appears in the painting "The Lost Jockey" (1926).
• It is popular in Spanish-speaking countries, where it is called by a wide number of names (including boliche in Spain, Capirucho in El Salvador and balero in most of Hispanic America), and was historically popular in France as the bilboquet.
• It is believed by some to be a variant of the French ball-and-cup game bilboquet ("bil" "ball" "boquet" "small tree"), with some scholars specifying that it arrived between 1420-1500.
• The genre may be seen as very old, including for example the 16th century cup-and-balltoy (bilboquet).
• The contents are compared to the "Page Pute" of "Brain Magazine", or other humoristic and satirical sites like "Bilboquet Magazine" and regularly more than 900,000 viewers per month stated by "Les Inrocks".

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• The building of the defunct Club Saint-Germain used to be home to the supper club Bilboquet.