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quinze|kwɪnz, F. kæ̃z|
[a. F. quinze:—L. quindecim fifteen.]
A card-game depending on chance, in which the winner is that player who obtains fifteen points, or comes nearest to that number without exceeding it.
1716Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Mar 14 Sept., When the ladies were come in, she sat down to quinze. 1778Sheridan Camp ii. iii, I daresay you would have thought of proper marquees for hazard and quinze. 1811Lady Granville Lett. (1894) I. 22 They play at quinze half the night.
Comb.1762in Cunningham Handbk. London (1850) 546/2 The Quinze players shall pay for their own cards. 1782J. Hare Let. 11 Feb. in 15th Rep. R. Comm. Hist. Manuscripts App. VI. 576 in Parl. Papers 1897 (C. 8551) LI. i. 1 A deep Quinze Table has taken away from Richard and Charles almost the whole profits of the Bank. 1803Lett. Miss Riversdale II. 190 ‘I never before knew Mrs. Blandford guilty of affectation,’ said Lord Lessingham, from the quinz-table. |