a card game resembling pinochle, but using a double deck of 64 cards, two of each card above the six
Origin of bezique
French bésigue from uncertain or unknown; perhapsbezique
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bezique
noun
- A trick-taking card game for two players that is played with a special deck of 64 cards consisting of the 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A cards from two different decks.
- The combination of the queen of spades and the jack of diamonds in this game, worth 40 points.
Origin of bezique
French bésigue possibly from Italian bazzica a kind of card gameTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural beziques)
- A trick-taking card game for two players.
- The act of taking certain cards in this game: the queen of spades and jack of diamonds, or (if either of those suits is trumps) the queen of clubs and jack of hearts.
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From French bézigue
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