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Definition of Bezique
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 Bezique
1. Noun. A trick-taking card game for two players. ¹
2. Noun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bezique
1. a card game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bezique
Literary usage of Bezique
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1899)
"Triple bezique (three Queens of Spades and three Knaves of Diamonds) counts 1500,
... Four-Handed bezique. Four packs are used, and the players may play as ..."
2. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"The cards rank as at ordinary bezique; but nine instead of eight cards are dealt,
... The scores at Rubicon bezique are as under:— CARTE BLANCHE. ..."
3. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"For instance : One partner has declared bezique and royal marriage, ...
Triple bezique counts 1500, and the game is usually 2000 points. ..."
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