| 单词 | ruff and honours |
| 释义 | > as lemmasruff and honours a. A card game popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. Also (esp. in later use) as ruff and honours. Now historical.Literary allusions occur chiefly between 1590 and 1630. The game, a forerunner of whist, was played with a pack of fifty-two cards, each of the four players (two pairs of partners) receiving twelve cards apiece, with the remaining cards serving as a stock of four. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > ruff or trump triumphc1557 triumph1563 trump1563 ruff?1577 cross-ruff1592 hand-ruff1611 ?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 208 I haue many good games madame as ruff, mawe, & saint or god a mercy. 1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde To Rdr. sig. C3v Leauing the auncient game of England (Trumpe) where euerie coate and sute are sorted in their degree, [they] are running to their Ruffe where the greatest sorte of the sute carrieth away the game. 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood (new ed.) Satyre iv. sig. D8v At Ticktacke, Irish, Noddie, Maw, and Ruffe. 1611 J. Davies in T. Coryate Crudities sig. i3 Of that Tongue he so hath got the Body That he sports with it at Ruffe, Gleeke, or Noddy. 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester 114 RUff and Honours (alias Slamm) and Whist, are Games so commonly Known in England in all parts thereof, that every Child almost of Eight years old hath a competent knowledg in that recreation. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 72/1 Ruffe and Honors and Whisk, which are generally among the Vulgar termed Trump. 1714 T. Lucas Mem. Most Famous Gamesters & Sharpers 67 There was no Game but what he was an absolute Artist at, either upon the Square or foul Play; as at English Ruff and Honours. 1864 Once a Week 19 Mar. 363/1 There was a group of games—trump, ruff, slam, ruff and honours, and, whisk and swabbers—which were closely allied. 1871 Q. Rev. Jan. 46 The importation of it [sc. the attachment of ‘honours’ to the four highest cards of the trump-suit] into trump and ruff gave the game a new character, and it took the name of ‘Ruff-and-honours’, the original form being called ‘French ruff’ for distinction. 1964 ‘A. Burgess’ Nothing Like the Sun ii. 14 These [cards] were not for an innocent game of trump or ruff; they were antique pictures. 1995 B. C. Daniels Puritans at Play v. ix. 179 Several varieties of whist developed, slam, and ruff and honours being the two best known. < as lemmas |
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