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pair-royal|pɛəˈrɔɪəl|
Also 6 paˈrriall, 7 paˈroyal(l, peˈrryall, paˈrreiall, 8 paiˈroyal, paiˈrial, paˈrial, 9 ˈprial.
A set of three of the same kind. a. In cribbage and other card games: Three cards of the same denomination, as three fives, queens, etc.; double pair-royal, four such cards.
1608Day Hum. out of Br. i. C ij, Shew perryall and take't. 1680Cotton Compl. Gamester in Singer Hist. Cards (1816) 348 A pair-royal is of three, as three kings, three queens, &c. 1749Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) II. 519 We had in playing a 15, a pairoyal, a double peroyal, a second peroyal, and an end game, which was 27. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. i. 267 The game is counted..by fifteens, sequences, pairs, and pairials. 1870Hardy & Ware Mod. Hoyle 78 In play [at cribbage] you cannot make a double pair-royal with any cards higher than sevens, as they would then exceed thirty-one, the limit of the hand.
b. A throw of three dice all turning up the same number of points, as three twos, three sixes, etc.
1656[see raffle n.1 1]. 1880Hardy Ret. Native iii. vii. 225 The raffle began, and the dice went round. When it came to Christian's turn, he took the box with a trembling hand, shook it..and threw a pair-royal. Three of the others had thrown common low pairs, and all the rest mere points.
c. transf. A set of three persons or things; three of a kind.
1592Nashe Strange Newes C iij b, He coupled them both..and..thrust in the third brother, who made a perfect parriall of pamphleters. 1633Ford Broken H. v. ii, On a pair-royal do I wait in death: My sovereign..on my mistress..and on Ithocles. 1635Quarles Embl. v. (1777) 282 That great pair-royal Of adamantine sisters. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. i. 26 The Moabites..concluded..that that paroyall of armies had smitten one another. 1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 352 The end..might also be attained by vesting it in a prial of kings. 1840De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 516/2 The year 333 before Christ. Here we have another ‘prial’, a prial of threes, for the locus of Alexander.
d. attrib., as pair-royal headed adj., three-headed.
1651Cleveland On Sir T. Martin 19 Pair-royal headed Cerberus his Cozen: Hercules labours were a Bakers dozen. |