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Definition of Short whist

1. Noun. A card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six.

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Literary usage of Short whist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The new game, short whist, was found to be so lively that it soon became general, and eventually superseded the long game. This produced in 1835 short whist ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Soon after Matthews wrote the points of the game were cut down from ten (long whist) to five (short whist). Clay's account of this change is that,, ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The universal game in London, Paris, Vienna, Hamburg, and New York is that described by the modern writers above mentioned, and short whist is now supreme; ..."

4. Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals, and Man by Ralph Nevill, Charles Edward Jerningham (1909)
"The lengthy and savage fight between the " long-whist" and the " short-whist" men is now forgotten, yet at one time it excited a considerable amount of ..."

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