jass

[ yahs ]

noun

1. a card game for two persons that is played with a 36-card pack made by removing all cards below the sixes from a regular 52-card pack, in which point values are assigned to certain melds and to certain cards taken in tricks.
2. Also jasz. the jack of trumps in klaberjass.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jass¹

klaberjass

Example Sentences

If so, I hope poor Jass will have a wider life than has evidently fallen to the lot of this good lady.'

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It's simply that I see it is right to try and be more careful, and—partly too for your sake, Jass.

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And Jass, to-day they 're going to have their last out-of-doors tea for this year, you know, as it's getting cold.

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I've always told Jass everything, and we write long, long letters to mamma.

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Jass was the mother of several little Mapors, the scars on her forehead showing their number.

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