whist
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I was at home, gentlemen, playing a rubber of whist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
They are often held when family and friends gather, get animated and talk smack amid a spades or bid whist card game where jokers and deuces are always wild.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2024
The mother-of-two told the court the Skoda Fabia was "swerving" whist driving on the A46.
From BBC ● May 17, 2023
And the series opens with four people playing bid whist.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
My mom’s relatives tended to gather at Southside’s house around the corner—drawn by my grandfather’s cooking, the ongoing games of bid whist, and the exuberant blasting of jazz.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
It also meant to keep silent, as in Surrey's "Virgil": "They whisted all, with fixed face intent."
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
Again he found himself in a vortex of dining, whisting, talking, and laughter.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
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