An alternative spelling of bocce, the Italian ball-tossing game played with weighted spheres.
Variant spelling of boccia, from Italian origin. Different English-speaking regions adopted different romanizations of the Italian word, creating multiple accepted spellings.
The existence of bocce, bocci, boccia, and boccie shows how English hasn't standardized Italian loanwords—each spelling is correct depending on where you learned to play!
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