belote
See also: Belote
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editbelote (uncountable)
- A trick-taking card game using a 32 card deck.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 471:
- At the Sphinx where he went rather sedately to play belotte and drink (with a timid air) an absinthe, which he hated, he had met a charming friend of his new wife [...].
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editFrom the name of F Belot, ‘a Frenchman who perfected the game’ (OED).
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editbelote f (plural belotes)
- (uncountable) belote
- (countable) king and queen of the trump suit, in the game belote
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edit- belote on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Further reading
edit- “belote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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