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Definition of Quatorze
1. n. The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.
Definition of Quatorze
1. Noun. (cards) The four aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, in the game of piquet, any of these counting as fourteen points. ¹
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Definition of Quatorze
1. a set of four cards of the same denomination scoring fourteen points [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quatorze
Literary usage of Quatorze
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crusaders of New France: A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-lis in the Wilderness by William Bennett Munro (1918)
"... CHAPTER IV THE AGE OF LOUIS quatorze Louis XIV, the greatest of the Bourbon
monarchs, had now taken into his own hands the reins of power. ..."
2. Crusaders of New France: A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-lis in the Wilderness by William Bennett Munro (1918)
"... CHAPTER IV THE AGE OF LOUIS quatorze Louis XIV, the greatest of the Bourbon
monarchs, had now taken into his own hands the reins of power. ..."
3. Crusaders of New France: A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-lis in the Wilderness by William Bennett Munro (1920)
"... CHAPTER IV THE AGE OF LOUIS quatorze Louis XIV, the greatest of the Bourbon
monarchs, had now taken into his own hands the reins of power. ..."
4. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee (1905)
"CHAPTER V UNDER LOUIS quatorze— (Continued) DURING the few years preceding the
recall of Frontenac, much progress had been made in the way of western ..."
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