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Pinocle

noun
1.
A card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist.  Synonyms: bezique, penuchle, pinochle.






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"Pinocle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other Baptist; and neither ever missed a service. Annie remained at home Sundays, and read aloud to her grandmother, and when both aunts were in the midst of their respective services, and the cook, who was intensely religious, engaged in preparing dinner, she and her old grandmother played pinocle. However, although Annie played cards very well, it was only with her relatives. She had never been allowed to join the Fairbridge Card Club. She never attended a play in the city, because Aunt Jane considered plays wicked. It was in reality doubtful if she ...
— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... This hour had been fixed by Philip Scheikowitz himself, who, on an average of once a month, would stroll into the shipping department at closing-time and announce his intention of going to a wedding that evening. Sometimes the proposed excursion was a pinocle party or a visit to the theatre, but the denouement was always the same. The next morning Scheikowitz would arrive at the factory door precisely at quarter-past seven to find Markulies from five to ten minutes late; whereupon Markulies would receive his discharge, to take effect the following ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass



Words linked to "Pinocle" :   cards, pinochle, penuchle, card game



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