costly colours
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edit- An English card game for two players, similar to cribbage and particularly popular in Shropshire.
- 1882, John Ashton, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, page 104:
- Other games were cribbage, all fours, ruff and honours, French ruff, five cards, costly colours, bon ace, putt, plain dealing, Queen Nazareen, pennech, post and pair, bankafalat, beast.
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- “costly colours | costly colors, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.