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pinochle

[pee-nuhk-uhl, -nok-] / ˈpi nʌk əl, -nɒk- /


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“Until it was closed for the pandemic, she was there every day. She organized two Pinochle groups, and a mahjong group that met on Tuesdays. She was the ringleader.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2020

Fortunately, I have another good friend and editor, Thaddeus Aloysius Pinochle, who makes the identical errors.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2018

Most notable perpetrator: Individually common, but all brilliantly enunciated by my good friend and editor, Thaddeus Aloysius Pinochle.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2018

To the Press, however, he is the Philadelphia Pinochle Prodigy.

From Time Magazine Archive

A little regular manual labor, rightly mixed with the mental, eliminates draw-poker, highballs, brawls, broils, Harvard Beer, Yale Mixture, Princeton Pinochle, Chippee dances, hazing, roistering, rowdyism and the bulldog propensity.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Hubbard, Elbert




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