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Definition of Conquian
1. n. A game for two, played with 40 cards, in which each player tries to form three or four of a kind or sequences.
Definition of Conquian
1. a card game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conquian
Literary usage of Conquian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"There is nothing to count at the end of the hand but the cards. Sixty-one points
is game, once round the board and into the game hole. conquian. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"... believed to be a corruption of the Mexican conquian. Out in the West and in
Philadelphia they speak of it as "Rum." Now, how can a game gain popularity ..."
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