misère
English
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editBorrowed from French misère. Doublet of misery.
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editNoun
editmisère (plural misères)
- (card games, whist and others) A bid to lose every trick, or the majority of tricks, with no trumps.
Adjective
editmisère (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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editmisère f (plural misères)
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editmisère
Further reading
edit- “misère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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