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Definition of Cassino

1. Noun. A card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand.

Definition of Cassino

1. n. A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.

Definition of Cassino

1. a card game [n -NOS]

Literary usage of Cassino

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

1. 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)
"Somewhere about 530, however, may be taken as a likely date, and Monte cassino as a more probable place than Subiaco, for the Rule certainly reflects St. ..."

2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"Thanks to Dr. Loew, we now know that it was written at Monte cassino at some time between 779 and 798, and that the same is true of Paris 7530. ..."

3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"St. Benedict, who lived 480-545, enjoined upon his monks of Monte cassino n«only to cultivate the land but to read and to copy manuscripts. ..."

4. Wayfarers in Italy by Katharine (Putnam) Hooker (1901)
"MONTE cassino AND RAVELLO. "Beautiful valley! through whose verdant meads Unheard ... Monte cassino was to me hardly more than a geographical expression, ..."

5. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"His departure for Monte cassino : he founds there the principal sanctuary of the monastic order. — Is ote on the description and history of Monte cassino. ..."

6. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"... on our way singing toward Monte cassino, intending to pursue our journey thence ... had inspected his affairs at Monte cassino, we resumed our journey; ..."

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