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Definition of Deuce-ace

1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deuce-ace

Literary usage of Deuce-ace

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Hand-book of Games--: comprising new or carefully revised treatises on by H.G. Bohn (1867)
"deuce-ace, to play one man from the five placed in your adversary's tables for the deuce ... 3 * deuce-ace, play tiie deuce from the five men placed in your ..."

2. Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games by Edmond Hoyle (1830)
"... throwing deuce-ace, trois-deuce, quatre-trois, or size cinque, in two or three throws: in anv of which cases you secure a point, which gives you vastly ..."

3. Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games by Edmond Hoyle (1838)
"... throwing deuce-ace, trois-deuce, quatre-trois, or size cinque, in two or three throws; in any of which cases you secure a point, which gives you vastly ..."

4. Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature: With Historical Notes on Other by Willard Fiske (1905)
"... is mentioned in the Alphonsine codex as •• seis dos è as" ("sice-deuce-ace"), thus identifying as still in existence, after more than six centuries, ..."

5. Hoyle's games, improved and enlarged by new and practical treatises: with by Edmond Hoyle (1847)
"deuce-ace, play one man from the five placed in your adversary's outer table for the deuce; and for the ace, play a man down upon the cinque-point in your ..."

6. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1842)
"Deuce ace !" shouted the croupier, raking up ... Up came a deuce ace, two's, three ace aces. I tried in vain to see a four, five, or a six, and determined ..."

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