Definition of Quatres

1. quatre [n] - See also: quatre

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quatres

quaterpolymers
quatorzain
quatorzains
quatorze
quatorzes
quatrain
quatrains
quatrandorite
quatrayle
quatrayles
quatre
quatreble
quatrebles
quatrefoil
quatrefoils
quatres (current term)
quatrumvirate
quatrumvirates
quats
quatted
quattrocento
quattrocentos
quattuordecillion
quatuorvirate
quatuorvirates
quave
quaved
quavemire
quavemires

Literary usage of Quatres

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

1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1844)
"There 's five pounds on deuces, and the same on trays and quatres." (Trays are thrown. ... (quatres are thrown.) "quatres! There they are! Keep 'em full. ..."

2. The Chinese Repository (1848)
"Quant a ce qui regarde le premier principe, voici ce qui dit ce livre (Yih King), Tai Ki a engendré deux effigies ; ces deux effigies out engendré quatres ..."

3. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in All Times and Countries by Andrew Steinmetz (1870)
"... and two quatres; but the disadvantage is in the doublets required—two treys, two quatres ; therefore sice-duce is easier thrown than two quatres, ..."

4. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in All Times and Countries by Andrew Steinmetz (1870)
"... and two quatres; but the disadvantage is in the doublets required—two treys, two quatres ; therefore sice-duce is easier thrown than two quatres, ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... II« reven- 1 reposer ; on lui dit qu'il restait quatres milles | ce n'est qu'un mille chacun." ' i à taire : — " Oh," dit-il, " noue sommée quatres, ..."

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