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Culbertson|ˈkʌlbətsən|
The name of Ely Culbertson (d. 1955), an American authority on contract bridge, used chiefly attrib. and ellipt. of a system of bidding at contract bridge.
1929Bridge World I. 40, I have been using what is known as the Culbertson System of bidding. 1931A. Woollcott Let. 22 July (1946) iv. 79, I was gone only three months, but in that time..everybody had taken up Culbertson. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 12 May 349/3 Bidding based on the Culbertson principles. 1959Listener 2 July 38/1 The Culbertson Four-Five No Trump convention. Ibid. 38/2 Culbertson bidders. |