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Meanings of whist in English
A card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six.
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1
Breakfast, whist; lunch, whist; dinner, whist; supper, whist; and then to bed.
2
In the drawing-room three whist-tables carry off the more elderly and grave.
3
The hour for whist had arrived; so he departed to play whist.
4
During this time the General played whist with Madame de la Roche-Jugan.
5
We played whist in the evening, and I went to bed late.
6
After dinner they had some music; Lord Roehampton would not play whist.
7
Aunt Saffronia proposed a rousing game of whist to pass the evening.
8
Anybody can play whist with four by honours in his own hands.
9
Sundry groups, in different corners, were beguiling the tedious hours at whist.
10
Late in the evening, after supper, they played whist in Emily's boudoir.
11
The only relaxations he allowed himself were fast driving and playing whist.
12
At the same moment, the whist-table broke up, and Cleveland approached Maltravers.
13
The remark was made before the party settled to the evening's whist.
14
A whist table would be made up for the Duchess of Kent.
15
Veronique now received her friends in her bedroom, where they played whist.
16
Having thus replenished his pockets he turned to the whist-table for amusement.
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United Kingdom
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