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A card game played with a 48-card pack (two of each suit for high cards)
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pinochle
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pinocle , 1864, Peaknuckle , of uncertain origin, perhaps from Swiss dialect Binokel (German), binocle (French), from French binocle "pince-nez" (17c.), from Medieval Latin binoculus "binoculars" (see binocular ). Taken as a synonym for bésigue "bezique," ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pinochle or binocle (sometimes pinocle , or penuchle ) is a trick-taking card game typically for two to four players and played with a 48-card deck. It is derived from the card game bezique ; players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context card games English) A card game, similar to bezique. 2 (context card games English) A meld of jack of diamonds and queen of spades in said card game.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But no one, least of all Yves, expected that pinochle had much of a future on Zhanjiang Bay. ▪ It was an improvement on pinochle .
Usage examples of pinochle.
It seems from what Schultz says that after Kunz returns to Germany, he misses his gin rummy no little as the game is practically unknown in his country where cardplayers generally favor pinochle or maybe klabriasch.
Duke was a panda bear, all he wanted was to sleep in the same bed with me and play pinochle.
Seeing myself in a cell next to Fud, the Meeks boys playing pinochle sideways through the bars, I popped off another shot, the hammer clicking on an empty chamber.