What is "trumps"

Usage examples of "trumps".

I picked up the deck of Trumps and flipped through them quickly, not letting my attention rest on any single card longer than necessary.

It was smaller than the other Trumps I had seen, but like the others it felt cool and smooth, as though carved from bone or ivory.

Half-painted Trumps lay out on the desk, several dozen full-sized paintings, including several portraits of Freda, leaned up against the walls, and stacks of brushes and jars of paint and pigment lay everywhere.

After five plays he would be left with the remaining trumps and six winning diamonds.

He made a small dismissive gesture with his right hand and Trumps and his helpers left.

She dreaming heavily of in-room movies and room service, me thinking about how she seemed to have been shipped to Providence shortly after I talked to Amy Gurwitz, before I spoke first with Trumps, and long before Red told me the Chandler Street address.

The minimum strength to justify the declaration is generally five trumps, but it may have been made on six.

If, then, a player holds six trumps with an average hand as regards the rank of his cards, or five trumps with a hand of no-trump strength, it is highly probable that he is as strong as the declarer.