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Definition of Misère
1. Noun. (''in Whist and other card games'') A bid to lose every trick, with no trumps. ¹
2. Adjective. Played according to the reverse of the usual winning convention. ¹
3. Adjective. In which a player unable to move wins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misère
1. an undertaking in cards to take no tricks [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misère
Literary usage of Misère
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Socialism; a Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo (1906)
"... least two years before, so Engels tells us, and in his writings of that period
there are many evidences of the fact. In La Misere de la Philosophie the ..."
2. The present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi: with a by Philip Pittman (1906)
"... OR MISERE THE first settlers of this village removed about twenty-eight years
ago from ... Misere ..."
3. A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements Until by Louis Houck (1908)
"Genevieve, First permanent Settlement, Located in " Big Common Field" —Village
probably founded about 1730—Village known as "Misere" —Report to Virginia in ..."
4. Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)
"6 Dieu de Misere, ayez pitié de nous. . . ." His eyes were red, and his voice
was high and shrill and tremulous and full of tears; these remem- 'brances ..."
5. Paris and the Social Revolution: A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in by Alvan Francis Sanborn (1905)
"Inconnu," the life history of a young sculptor who died of " the malady to which
science does not dare to give its true name, la misere. ..."
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