单词 | thirty-one |
释义 | thirty-onen. The name of a game (or games) of cards. Also one-and-thirty: see one-and-thirty n. at one adj., n., and pron. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > bone-ace one-and-thirtyc1557 bone ace1611 thirty-one1838 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Riii It is like he gaue one to his man for his labour to make vp ye game, & so ther was xxxi. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 33 Was it fit for a seruant to vse his master so, being perhaps..two and thirty, a peepe out? 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry ii. sig. D3v You thinke, because you serue my Ladyes mother, are 32 yeeres old, which is a peepe out, you know. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 409 How many are above one and thirty, (a Peep out) in their Estates, before they come to their one and twenty in yeares?] 1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 45 A Frenchman..published a Treatise upon the game of Thirty-One. 1891 ‘Professor Hoffmann’ Card & Table Games i. 249 Thirty-one (the German Schnautz)... The primary object of the game is to hold three cards of the same suit, which shall together make ‘thirty-one;’ the ace counting eleven, court cards ten each. 1990 D. Parlett Oxf. Guide Card Games 81 Twenty-One may have resulted from a deliberate speeding up of Thirty-One, effected by first permitting players to count Ace as 1 or 11, and then reducing the target by 10 so that it could be reached on just two cards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1838 |
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