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Definition of Quatorzes
1. quatorze [n] - See also: quatorze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quatorzes
Literary usage of Quatorzes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"Quatorzes and Trios. Point is won by the player who has the greatest number of
spots in any one suit, reckoning Ace as 11, and face cards each as 10. ..."
2. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"Quatorzes or trios of cards smaller than Tens are of no value. ... The reason
that quatorzes are not shown is that when Aces, Kings, Queens, Knaves, ..."
3. Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games, with by Edmond Hoyle (1887)
"When the elder hand has led his first card, the younger shows his point, if it
is good : also the sequences, quatorzes, or threes of aces, kings, ..."
4. Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games by Edmond Hoyle (1838)
"When the elder hand has led his first card, the younger shows his point, if it
is good: also ine sequence, quatorzes, or threes of aces, kings, ..."
5. The Field Book: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom; Comp. from (1833)
"The carte blanche is first reckoned, then the point, next the sequences, and
lastly, the quatorzes, as well as threes of arcs, kings, &c., after which he ..."
6. Hoyle's games, improved and enlarged by new and practical treatises: with by Edmond Hoyle (1847)
"The carte-blanche is first reckoned, then the point, next the sequences, and
lastly the quatorzes, as well as three of aces, kings, &c., after which he ..."
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