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whists

  • present tense form
    of whist (3rd person singular).
    whist
    noun
    a card game, an early form of bridge, but without bidding.

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I wish I could get a house down here, and retire from the pomps and short whists of life, the odd tricks and all the honours!

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey

For the privilege of being invited to teas, bridge whists, of being sure of a place in the local social life.

From The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart