Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court.
1The shuffleboard and boccie ball courts were amazing, as befit, she supposed, an area with so many retirees.
2They buried him in the backyard at Robert's, under a layer of cement right next to the boccie court.
3They wouldn't have even seen me if I hadn't tipped the bin over, spilling the green peppers everywhere, like boccie balls.
4The writer learned there was a boccie court in New York, off Court Street in Brooklyn & went there one Saturday, with Andrea, his interpreter.
5The New Yorker, August 1, 1983 P. 27 Talk story about boccie, a game the writer became interested in while he was in Italy.
6Boccie is played with heavy, grapefruit-size wooden balls, generally red or green.