gleek
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A card game for three players played in the 1500s and 1600s
- noun
- Archaic
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gleek
- While studying historical games, I learned that gleek was played with three players and involved strategy and skill.
Examples
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In the 17th century, a popular pastime for nobles was to gather for a game of gleek on rainy afternoons.
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During our history class, the teacher described how gleek was enjoyed by those in the royal courts of the past.
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So W. S. writes that the Jew Shylock won't eat any pork, and by the end of this play, he is also a gleek he wrote from the price of pork, mean-spirited, and also lies.
Fiction book (1999)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gleek (card game) likely comes from the same root as glee, which means 'joy' or 'fun', so a gleek was a lively game played for pleasure in past centuries.
