boccie
- n Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court
- Giuseppe Fietta, 75, has a long career as a papal diplomat but often likes to stroll the streets of his north Italian home town of Ivrea and play boccie with his friends.
- Even after the elicottero has floated up several hundred feet and the 100-acre estate belowtennis court, boccie court, soccer field, man-made lake, lemon and olive groves and .
- The aging bosses seated at the defense table in the packed federal courtroom in lower Manhattan look harmless enough to be spectators at a Sunday-after noon boccie game.