noun

1. any of a family of card games, usually for three or four persons and typically played with a 48-card deck made up of two of every card above the eight, including the ace
2. the meld of the queen of spades and the jack of diamonds in this game

Etymology: earlier binochle < Ger dial. (Swiss) binokel < Fr binocle, pince-nez (< ModL binoculus, binoculars: see binocular), taken as synonym for bésigue, bezique, wrongly identified with besicles, spectacles (prob. because the game is played with a double deck)