calabrasella

[kal-uh-bruh-zel-uh]

noun

a card game for three persons that is played with a 40-card pack made by removing the eights, nines, and tens from a regular 52-card pack.

Origin of calabrasella

< Italian calabresella, equivalent to calabres(e) (Calabr(ia) Calabria + -ese -ese) + -ella diminutive suffix (< L)

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