whist
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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
Love, Peace & Spades is a safe and inclusive space for Black people to enjoy one another and play Uno, bid whist, Tunk, dominoes and spades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
Also, this is likely the only hip-hop song in history to mention the card game whist.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Bid whist, for our generation, was the national Black pastime.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
‘No, no. My mother said it is a rising eye. But I was to keep whist and mum about it—unless even God has turned away His face. And Cilia ... you promised.’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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 Downey, Edmund
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 Lockhart, Caroline
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 Baldwin, James
Again he found himself in a vortex of dining, whisting, talking, and laughter.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund
