spadille
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of spadille
1720–30; < French < Spanish espadilla, equivalent to espad ( a ) broadsword, spade in cards (< Latin spatha; see spade 2) + -illa diminutive suffix
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"Look! spadille, the ace!" he cried; "I have your neckcloth."
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
In two hours Sir Asinus was sitting at spadille in the exceedingly undress costume of shirt, pantaloons, and silk stockings.
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
If, brisk and gay, Thou sitt'st to play At ombre or at chess, May ne'er spadille Attend thy will, Nor luck thy movements bless.
From Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I heard high-pitched voices, and "spadille," "basto," "matador"—all the queer words of quadrille, their favoured game.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
A National Assembly is spadille, but there is still a basta, a second trump which we wish to play out in East Prussia.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
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