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tredrille, tredille|trɛˈdrɪl, -ˈdɪl|
Also 8 tresdille, 9 tradrille.
[f. quadrille by substitution of tre- three for qua(d-.]
A card-game played by three persons, usually with thirty cards.
1764H. Walpole Let. to Earl Hertford 8 June, Lady Albemarle was at tredille. 1767Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 2 May, The Duchess, Lady Blunt and I play'd at tresdille. 1769Ibid. 15 June, I play'd at tredrille..with Madame de Viry and a French Officer for a shilling a fish. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 266 Tredrille, a modification of Quadrille which might be played by three persons... It was considered as very inferior to the game Quadrille played by four. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist, To explain to me how far it [ombre] agreed with, and in what points it would be found to differ from, tradrille. 1825Mrs. Sherwood Bitter Sweet ii. 5 A hand at tredille or three-handed whist. 1860T. L. Peacock Gryll Gr. xxiii, Quadrille is played with forty cards: tredrille usually with thirty: sometimes, as in Pope's Ombre, with twenty seven. |