misère
Britishnoun
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a call in solo whist and other card games declaring a hand that will win no tricks
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a hand that will win no tricks
Etymology
Origin of misère
C19: from French: misery
Example Sentences
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It is a universe of dilapidated stairwells, cramped apartments and barren concrete plazas, and all are in the misère, as the French would say.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
An iconography of misère may have first appeared among illustrators in famine-stricken Ireland, which became, for British and French social reformers, “the very paradigm of misery in the 19th century.”
From New York Times ● May 18, 2018
When French artists represented contemporary misère, they did so with divergent techniques for men and women.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2018
It was a happy, sensible, affectionate family-circle, in which the long-lost son and brother found sweet relief from the misère of Stuttgart.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin
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