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double solitaire

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noun

Cards.
  1. a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.


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Schmidt occasionally relaxes with a mystery story, preferably by Agatha Christie, plays Bach or Mozart on a large electric organ, or challenges his wife at chess and double solitaire.

From Time Magazine Archive

She watched cartoons with the little kids until golf came on, then played double solitaire with Maisie until they were both bored stupid.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

Kayak and Boreland were engaged in a close game of double solitaire.

From Where the Sun Swings North by Willoughby, Barrett

The high scream and the slow, precise snack-snack of cards as Reg and Max played a game of double solitaire with a cold, emotionless precision.

From Empire by Simak, Clifford D.

On the last day of my imprisonment he stopped in to thrash out a case that was coming up in court the next day, and to play a game of double solitaire with me.

From The Man in Lower Ten by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

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