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(pl. noun) - "How go the squares?" how goes the game? The reference is to the chessboard. Thomas Middleton, Family of Love 1608. Yomenne, "yeomen"; the pawns in the game of chess.
--Walter Skeat's Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, 1914
January 16, 2018