Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Italian game of cards for four players with a forty-card pack.
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Examples
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He proposed a game of tresette, and he could have thought of nothing better.
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His head felt as confused as when he played at tresette and did not understand the game and every one badgered him.
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In one of these apartments silver trays were set out with sherbets, cakes, and fruit cooled in snow, while in another stood gaming-tables around which the greater number of the company were already gathering for tresette.
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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Frau Lenore offered to play against him and Pantaleone at 'tresette,' instructed him in this not complicated Italian game, and won a few kreutzers from him, and he was well content.
The Torrents of Spring Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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He proposed a game of tresette, and he could have thought of nothing better.
The Torrents of Spring Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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‘tresette,’ instructed him in this not complicated
chained_bear commented on the word tresette
After a sumptuous meal, the women talked among themselves while the men played card games: usually tresette and briscola, which eventually were supplanted by the American poker, or pochero (as it became known among the Italians). During Christmas and New Year's entire families, including teenage children, played for small stakes."
—Jerre Mangione and Ben Morreale, La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992), 307
December 17, 2009
BoarGules commented on the word tresette
There is a scanning error in the definition from Century: for _live_ read _five_.
November 12, 2010