quinze

British  

/ kɛ̃z /

noun

1. a card game with rules similar to those of vingt-et-un, except that the score aimed at is 15 rather than 21

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Etymology

Origin of quinze

French: fifteen

Example Sentences

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quinze

The bayonet is Rosalie the virgin of Bayonne, but the 75, the watchful nurse of the trenches and little sister of the Line, seems to be always "soixante- quinze."

From France at War On the Frontier of Civilization by Rudyard Kipling

One poor wretch lost several oxen in one game of quinze.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz

In the evenings some of the friends who still remain come in for a dinner or to play quinze or lansquenet, but, in truth, 'tis difficult to get half a dozen people together.

From Calvert of Strathore by Carter Goodloe

There were silver-pharaoh and whist for the ladies that did not dance, deep basset and quinze for the men; the supper very fine.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham

Thus, in its very bud, had his eye detected the conjuration de quinze ans!

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart