A card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist [syn: pinochle, pinocle, penuchle, bezique]
Penuchle \Pe"nu*chle\, Pinocle \Pin"o*cle\ Pinochle
\Pin"o*chle\, n.
A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the
cards above the eight spots in two packs.
[1913 Webster]
Pinochle \Pin"o*chle\, Pinocle \Pin"o*cle\, n.
A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the
cards above the eight spots in two packs. [Also spelled
penuchle.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]
