bezique

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

bezique
    n 1: a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of
         each suit for high cards); play resembles whist [syn:
         {pinochle}, {pinocle}, {penuchle}, {bezique}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

B'ezique \B['e]*zique"\ (b[asl]*z[=e]k"), n. [F. b['e]sigue.]
   A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the
   hand, when declared, score points.
   [1913 Webster]

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