| 单词 | round game |
| 释义 | > as lemmasround game round game n. †(a) a round dance (obsolete rare); (b) a card game in which each player plays as an individual rather than with a partner; (more generally) any game which is played by a large number of individuals, rather than by teams (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > round dance > [noun] carolc1300 carolingc1300 roundc1487 ring dancea1522 round dance1530 ringlet1600 roundel1600 round game1611 circle dance1821 ronde1823 ring play1856 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > game or match > type of game round game1776 hock-game1859 1611 L. Whitaker in T. Coryate Crambe sig. b2 Yee Churchales, and ye Morresses, With Hobby-horse aduancing, Ye Round-games with fine Sim and Sis, About the Maypole dancing. 1776 Morning Post 20 Mar. Commerce is now the polite round game, and played to a higher pitch of gambling among the women than ever Loo was. 1790 W. Scott Let. 3 Sept. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) I. vi. 169 At night [we] laugh, chat, and play round games at cards. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby i. 4 Speculation is a round game; the players see little or nothing of their cards at first starting. 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. I. 122 What splendid round games we used to play in the evenings! 1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 48 Round games seem to have been viewed..as..a more lighthearted, boisterous sort of play [than whist]. < as lemmas |
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