quinzen.

Brit.

/kwɪnz/,

/kãz/, U.S.

/kwɪnz/

Forms: 1700s– quinze, 1800s quinz.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French quinze.

Etymology: < French quinze (1677 in this sense), use as noun of quinze fifteen (c1100 in Old French; < classical Latin quīndecim fifteen: see quindecemvir n.).Compare the following earlier isolated borrowing of French quinze combination of cards worth fifteen points (1680 in this sense), here with reference to the game of basset (see basset n.²):1688 T. D'Urfey Fool's Preferment i. i. 10 'Tis [sc. basset] a Royal Game, indeed; but prithee do but observe my ill Fortune! I was Fass'd every Card, I set, or when I drew a lucky one it did not go. I had lost seven Kings before, and made a Sept & le va upon an Eight: When to see the Prodigy of ill Luck, A Citt, a strange Punt, that sat next me, a pert forward pushing Fellow follow'd the winning Knaves, and won a Quinze & le va before ever I could make an Alpieu.

Cards.

A card game resembling pontoon, in which the object is to acquire cards with a face value totalling fifteen points, or to come as near as possible to that number without exceeding it.

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

1714 A. Boyer tr. A. Hamilton Mem. Life Count de Grammont iii. 25 Count Cameran plays at Quinze (Fifteen) and so do I [Fr. Le conte de Caméran joue au quinze, et moi aussi].

1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. (1965) I. 266 When the Ladys were come in, she sat down to Quinze.

1778 R. B. Sheridan Camp ii. iii I daresay you would have thought of proper marquees for hazard and quinze.

1811 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 22 They play at quinze half the night.

1898 S. Weyman Castle Inn (1933) xxiv. 235 What shall it be..Loo, Quinze, Faro, Lansquenet?

1969 L. D. Reid Charles James Fox x. 130 He had been up all night playing quinze and had the memory of a two-thousand pound loss at the outer edge of consciousness.

1990 D. Parlett Oxf. Guide Card Games vii. 82 Quinze..is a two-hand equivalent of Twenty-One played to a point of fifteen.

Compounds

General attributive, as quinze player, quinze table, etc.

ΚΠ

1762 in P. Cunningham Handbk. London (1850) 546/2 The Quinze players shall pay for their own cards.

1782 J. Hare Let. 11 Feb. in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1899) (C. 8551) LI. i. 1 A deep Quinze Table has taken away from Richard and Charles almost the whole profits of the Bank.

1803 Lett. Miss Riversdale II. 190 ‘I never before knew Mrs. Blandford guilty of affectation,’ said Lord Lessingham, from the quinz-table.

1993 J. Feather Virtue x. 125 ‘He's at the quinze table,’ she said, laying her rouleaux around her selected cards.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quinze
释义	quinzen. Brit. /kwɪnz/, /kãz/, U.S. /kwɪnz/ Forms: 1700s– quinze, 1800s quinz. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French quinze. Etymology: < French quinze (1677 in this sense), use as noun of quinze fifteen (c1100 in Old French; < classical Latin quīndecim fifteen: see quindecemvir n.).Compare the following earlier isolated borrowing of French quinze combination of cards worth fifteen points (1680 in this sense), here with reference to the game of basset (see basset n.²):1688 T. D'Urfey Fool's Preferment i. i. 10 'Tis [sc. basset] a Royal Game, indeed; but prithee do but observe my ill Fortune! I was Fass'd every Card, I set, or when I drew a lucky one it did not go. I had lost seven Kings before, and made a Sept & le va upon an Eight: When to see the Prodigy of ill Luck, A Citt, a strange Punt, that sat next me, a pert forward pushing Fellow follow'd the winning Knaves, and won a Quinze & le va before ever I could make an Alpieu. Cards. A card game resembling pontoon, in which the object is to acquire cards with a face value totalling fifteen points, or to come as near as possible to that number without exceeding it. 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 1714 A. Boyer tr. A. Hamilton Mem. Life Count de Grammont iii. 25 Count Cameran plays at Quinze (Fifteen) and so do I [Fr. Le conte de Caméran joue au quinze, et moi aussi]. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. (1965) I. 266 When the Ladys were come in, she sat down to Quinze. 1778 R. B. Sheridan Camp ii. iii I daresay you would have thought of proper marquees for hazard and quinze. 1811 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 22 They play at quinze half the night. 1898 S. Weyman Castle Inn (1933) xxiv. 235 What shall it be..Loo, Quinze, Faro, Lansquenet? 1969 L. D. Reid Charles James Fox x. 130 He had been up all night playing quinze and had the memory of a two-thousand pound loss at the outer edge of consciousness. 1990 D. Parlett Oxf. Guide Card Games vii. 82 Quinze..is a two-hand equivalent of Twenty-One played to a point of fifteen. Compounds General attributive, as quinze player, quinze table, etc. ΚΠ 1762 in P. Cunningham Handbk. London (1850) 546/2 The Quinze players shall pay for their own cards. 1782 J. Hare Let. 11 Feb. in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1899) (C. 8551) LI. i. 1 A deep Quinze Table has taken away from Richard and Charles almost the whole profits of the Bank. 1803 Lett. Miss Riversdale II. 190 ‘I never before knew Mrs. Blandford guilty of affectation,’ said Lord Lessingham, from the quinz-table. 1993 J. Feather Virtue x. 125 ‘He's at the quinze table,’ she said, laying her rouleaux around her selected cards. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1714
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