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Definition of Reversis
1. n. A certain game at cards.
Definition of Reversis
1. Noun. An old trick-taking card game, popular with the French aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reversis
1. reversi [n] - See also: reversi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reversis
Literary usage of Reversis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hand-book of Games--: comprising new or carefully revised treatises on by H.G. Bohn (1867)
"reversis is played by four persons, with a box, containing* thirty-six fish,
twenty-four counters, and six contracts; likewise with two pools, viz., ..."
2. Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games by Edmond Hoyle (1830)
"THE Game of reversis is played hy four persons, each having a hox, containing
six contracts, reckoned as forty-eight fish each, twenty counters six feet ..."
3. Hoyle's games, improved and enlarged by new and practical treatises: with by Edmond Hoyle (1847)
"reversis is played by four persons, with every one a box containing six contracts,
reckoned as 48 fish each, twenty counters 6 fish each, and 32 fish, ..."
4. The Commentaries of Gaius by Gaius, John Thomas Abdy (1870)
"... venirent . postea \ero reversis dabatur e in special and formal language.
If, for instance, the action ..."
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