| 单词 | costly colours |
| 释义 | > as lemmascostly colours costly colours n. now rare a card game similar to cribbage, the object being to score exactly 31 points by playing cards in certain combinations. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xiv. 127 You must set up six for Costly-Colours. 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 206 They found Duroy and Heartley playing at Costly Colours: a game upon the cards peculiar to that country. 1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 341 Costly colours. This game is to be played out only by two persons, of which the eldest is to play first as in other games. 1877 Salopian Shreds & Patches 14 Mar. 153/1 The game of cards referred to as ‘costly colours’, was, in my younger days, called ‘corsley’, and taught to children to render them apt in reckoning. 1924 M. Webb Precious Bane vi. 114 She..stood by the fire, telling us about the game of Costly Colours—how you counted, and of the trumps, and how three of a suit was a prial, and four of a suit was Costly. 1944 K. Winsor Forever Amber (2000) xx. 313 They sat before the fire and played card games, costly-colours, putt, wit-and-reason. < as lemmas |
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