misère
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Borrowed from French misère. Doublet of misery.
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misère (plural misères)
- (card games, whist and others) A bid to lose every trick, or the majority of tricks, with no trumps.
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misère (not comparable)
- Played according to the reverse of the usual winning convention.
- A strategy in misère backgammon is to put six blots in a row.
- In which a player unable to move wins.
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misère f (plural misères)
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misère
Further reading edit
- “misère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.