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Sancho Pedro, n. U.S. Cards. Now hist. and rare.
Brit. |ˌsan(t)ʃəʊ ˈpɛdrəʊ|, |ˌsɑːn(t)ʃəʊ ˈpɛdrəʊ|, U.S. |ˈˌsɑn(t)ʃoʊ ˈpeɪdroʊ|
[‹ Spanish Sancho, male forename + Pedro, male forename (see Pedro Sancho n.).]
= Pedro Sancho n.
1875T. Frere Hoyle's Games 331 Sancho Pedro.., the game is played by any number of persons from two to eight. Four or five, however, are best. 1877Harper's Mag. Nov. 928/2 The various groups, each deep in the mysteries of cassino, Sancho Pedro, or such like unwholesome diversion. 1913J. London Jack Barleycorn (1998) xix. 113 Sometimes we had mishaps, as when one got stuck twice in succession in a five-handed game of Sancho Pedro for the drinks. 1940F. R. Dulles Amer. learns to Play xv. 252 When cards were introduced, this generation usually played, in addition to whist, such games as euchre, five hundred, seven-up, progressive fifty-eight, or Sancho Pedro. |