Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tombola (/ t ɒ m ˈ b oʊ l ə / tom-BOH-lə, Italian:) is a lottery-style board game which originated in Southern Italy. A variation of the game is a popular form of raffle in the UK and elsewhere around the world.
Tombola or variants may refer to: Tombola (game), a lottery-type game originating in Italy; Tombola (bingo company), a UK-based online gaming company; Tómbola, 1961 Spanish musical film with child singer and actress Marisol; Tómbola, an American Spanish-language entertainment-news TV show
In the UK, the term "tombola" is used when the raffle tickets are placed in a barrel and tumbled before the winning tickets are drawn from the barrel. The tombola booth is commonly used as a fundraising event for local fetes. In New Zealand and Australia, meat raffles are commonplace in pubs and registered clubs. [8]
A bingo winner in Montreal, Quebec in 1941. A game of chance named lotto was being played in Italy by about 1530. In the 18th century, a home version (called Tombola) was created in Naples with the addition of cards, tokens, and the calling out of numbers.
Lotería (Spanish word meaning "lottery") is a traditional Mexican board game of chance, similar to bingo, but played with a deck of cards instead of numbered balls. Each card has an image of an everyday object, its name, and a number, although the number is usually ignored.
Tombola is a British gambling company founded in 2006. It operates the world’s largest online bingo website. Business operations are led from its headquarters in Sunderland , alongside a satellite office in Gibraltar .
The Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española (Thesaurus of Castilian or Spanish Language) is a dictionary of the Spanish language, written by Sebastián de Covarrubias in 1611. It was the first monolingual dictionary of the Castilian (Spanish) language, [clarification needed ; see Talk page] with its lexicon defined in Spanish.
Because Spanish is a Romance language (which means it evolved from Latin), many of its words are either inherited from Latin or derive from Latin words. Although English is a Germanic language , it, too, incorporates thousands of Latinate words that are related to words in Spanish. [ 3 ]