Crossword clues for bezique
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
card game, 1861, from French bézigue (19c.), which is of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. A trick-taking card game for two players.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Bezique or Bésigue is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players. The game is derived from Piquet, possibly via Marriage (Sixty-six) and Briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the Q and J that is also a feature of Pinochle, Binokel, and similarly named games that vary by country.
Usage examples of "bezique".
Here is a Paradise of Chance, an E-0 Wheel big as a Roundabout, Lottery Balls in Cages ever a-spin, Billiards and Baccarat, Bezique and Games whose Knaves and Queens live, over Flemish Carpets, among perfect imported Chippendale Gaming-Tables, beneath Chandeliers secretly, cunningly faceted so as to amplify the candle-light within, they might be Children playing in miniature at Men of Enterprise, whose Table is the wide World, lands and seas, and the Sums they wager too often, when the Gaming has halted at last, to be reckon'd in tears.
So I played up as seldom before, smiling politely, talking wittily at ease, breathing in the breezes of the distant mountains with every sign of content, coaxing Kralta to buy a monstrous hat in one of the boutiques, drinking in a beer-garden with Willem and shaking my head ruefully as he cheated me at bezique (father's son, no question), laughing heartily at the drolleries of Frosch the gaoler in Fledermaus at the little theatre in the evening, remarking at dinner that Austria's contribution to civilisation must surely be the art of cooking cabbage decently,17 rogering Kralta to stupefaction when we'd retired, and lying awake later with her sleeping boobies across my chest, cudgelling my wits for a way out.
And besides, if I didn't, I should be playing bezique with my aunt at Richfield Springs.