Lexicographical Neighbors of Quatres
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, ..."