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Definition of Pinochle
1. Noun. A card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist.
Definition of Pinochle
1. Noun. (card games) A card game, similar to bezique. ¹
2. Noun. (card games) A meld of jack of diamonds and queen of spades in said card game. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinochle
1. a card game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinochle
Literary usage of Pinochle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The game above described is the original single pinochle, but the modern and more
generally adopted game is played with a specially prepared pinochle pack ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"pinochle may be played by two, three or fo» persons. Two packs, from which all
cards below the nines ha« been deleted, are shuffled together, ..."
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