bezique

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun bezique has 1 sense

bezique(n = noun.act) penuchle, pinochle, pinocle - a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist;

is a kind of card game, cards

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bezique, n.
1 a card-game for two with a double pack of 64 cards, including the ace to seven only in each suit.
2 a combination of the queen of spades and the jack of diamonds in this game.

Etymology

F b{eacute}sigue, perh. f. Pers. bazigar juggler