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Definition of Pedro
1. n. The five of trumps in certain varieties of auction pitch.
Definition of Pedro
1. a card game [n -DROS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedro
Literary usage of Pedro
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"His father dying in 1826, Dom pedro became king of Portugal, ... He was the only
son of the Emperor pedro I, and succeeded to the throne on the abdication ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"HENRY and King pedro clasping, Hold in straining arms each other; ... Close Don
Henry grapples pedro, pedro holds Don Henry strait; Breathing, this, ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Both Maria and pedro were weak and amiable, and disinclined to treat the ...
In May, 1786, pedro III died, and shortly afterwards his eldest son Dom Jose. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"His son pedro I, after vanquishing the Moorish auxiliary army in the battle of
... pedro II, "The Catholic" (El Católico, 1196-1213), made his kingdom a ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"The Pleistocene formations occurring at San pedro have been designated by Dr.
... The fauna of the lower San pedro includes 247 species, of which 12.5 per ..."
6. History of Spanish literature by George Ticknor, Ticknor, George, 1791-1871 (1849)
"... we have a number of pastoral poems which carry with them a picturesque, antique
air, from being made up in part of ballads and villancicos. " pedro de ..."
7. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"pedro sought refuge in Bayonne, where he obtained the assistance of Edward the
Black Prince, who placed him again on the throne; but disgusted with his ..."
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