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单词 the play of love
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the play of love
8. A game of chance of Italian origin in which one player holds up a certain number of fingers, and another simultaneously guesses their number; = morra n. Frequently in the play of love. Obsolete. [Apparently after Middle French iouer à l'amour, lit. ‘to play at love’ (see quot. 1585), apparently a folk-etymological alteration of iouer à la mourre to play morra (see morra n., and compare quot. 1653).]
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1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 297/2 Micare digitis,..iouer à l'amour,..a play vsed in Italy,..it is called there, & in France and Spaine, the play of loue.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mourre, the play of loue.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxii. 94 There he played..At love [Fr. a la mourre].
1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 205 The Countrymens Play of holding up our Fingers (dimicatione digitorum, i.e. the Play of Love).
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