minchiaten.

1741 H. Mann in H. Walpole Corr. (1955) XVII. 193 Montemar had wrote a letter there, to say he hoped soon to play at minchiate.

1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy II. 219 The games I mean, are those which we form out of those cards called Minchiate and Tarrocco's.

1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy II. 219 Both the minchiate and the tarrocco's consist of five suits instead of four, as common cards do.

1803 R. Smith Let. in Archaeologia (1806) 15 140 There is no game on the cards,..that requires closer attention..than this of Minchiate.

1803 R. Smith Let. in Archaeologia (1806) 15 141 A Minchiate pack consists of ninety-seven cards, of which fifty-six are called Cartiglia, forty Tarocchi, and one Matto.

1905 Athenæum 18 Nov. 684/1 For those with a taste for long-drawn out pleasures, tarot and minchiate—for others, basset, trappola, [etc.]—succeeded each other as fashionable games.

1979 ELH 46 722 Some cards said to have been made for Charles VI of France in 1392 are often cited as the earliest tarots but the first autheticated tarrochi (and the related minchiate cards) appear in fifteenth-century Italy.

2000 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. (Connecticut Weekly section) 12/1 There are also..highly prized Minchiate packs, expanded decks with allegorical images and signs of the zodiac popular in Florence during the 18th century.