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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On “Calvaire,” Chicha sings, “T’es ma misère, c’est le monde a l’envers, t’es mon enfer, ’vec tes commentaires,” which translates to “You’re my misery, my world inverted, you’re my hell with your observations.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021
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
After every misère ouverte we have a round of nap.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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