tangram in English
noun
1
a Chinese geometric puzzle consisting of a square cut into seven pieces that can be arranged to make various other shapes.
Of indeterminate age - at least 150 but maybe much older, say, dating back to Pythagoras and his right triangles - the 7 tangram pieces (credited by some sources to the Chinese) can form countless different designs.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "tangram" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "tangram", or refer to the context using the word "tangram" in the English Dictionary.
1. Blackwork Starter Kit - Tangram
2. When it docked in Canton, the captain was given a pair of author Sang-Hsia-koi's tangram books from 1815.
3. This was mostly due to a pair of British tangram books, The Fashionable Chinese Puzzle, and the accompanying solution book, Key.