| 单词 | auction bridge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasauction bridge auction bridge an early version of the card game bridge, in which all tricks won counted towards the game whether bid or not.Cf. contract bridge at contract n.1 1g. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > varieties of nullo1893 duplicate1894 auction bridge1903 auction1908 contract1908 duplicate bridge1929 plafond1929 rubber bridge1935 1903 O. Crawford in Times 16 Jan. 5/6 ‘Auction bridge’..is more lively than dummy bridge. 1908 W. Dalton Auction Bridge p. iii Auction Bridge is really a clever combination of the two games of Poker and Bridge. 1959 T. Reese & A. Dormer Bridge Player's Dict. 18 Auction bridge, the predecessor of contract, held sway from about 1911..to 1928, when contract began to be popular. 1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells i. 5 Happy and tense they played at Auction Bridge. 2016 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 61 Competitive bidding is the cornerstone of our wonderful game [sc. bridge] and in the good old days it was called auction bridge. The auction has become contract and we often have to make difficult decisions at a high level. < as lemmas |
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