a card game for three people, played with thirty-two cards
Origin of skat
German from Italian scarto, discard from scartare, to discard from s- ( from Classical Latin ex-, out) + carta, card ( from Classical Latin charta: see card)skat
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skat
noun
- A card game for three persons that is played with 32 cards, sevens through aces.
- One of the combinations of cards occurring in this game.
Origin of skat
German from Italian scarto a discarded card from scartare to reject s- out ; see sfumato . carta card ( from Latin charta paper made of papyrus ; see card 1. )THE 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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