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bezique

bezique

1 9.9
A two-player card game played with a special 48-card pack
  • noun
  • /bɪˈziːk/
  • Archaic
: bezique
  • They played a game of bezique last night.
  • play bezique

Examples

  • They spent the evening playing bezique by the fire.

  • She taught her grandson how to play bezique during the holidays.

  • A set of special cards is required for a proper game of bezique.

  • Let's play bezique!

  • She taught her grandmother how to play bezique during their weekly game nights.

  • After dinner, they always enjoyed a lively match of bezique at the kitchen table.

  • Elizabeth and John frequently competed in bezique, trying to outsmart each other with their strategies.

Synonyms

card game
vsbezique
40 1.1

A game played with playing cards, for example poker, that often needs skill or luck

is a two player version using forty eight cards and resembling whist

Surface Forms

bezique singular
beziques plural

Etymology

Bezique comes from French bézique, probably from Portuguese bisca, a word for a 'card game'. So bezique is simply the name of this particular two-player card game, like bridge is the name of another card game.