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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BOUILLOTTE , a See also:

French See also:

GAME

game of See also:

CARDS, PLAYING

cards, very popular during the Revolution, and again for some years from 1830. Five, four or three persons may See also:

PLAY

play; a See also:

PIQUET

piquet See also:

pack is used, from which, in See also:

case five play, the sevens, when four the knaves, and when three the queens also, are omitted. Counters or chips, as in See also:

POKER

poker, are used. Before the See also:

DEAL

deal each player " antes " one See also:

COUNTER

counter, after which each, the " See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age " passing, may " raise " the pot; those not " seeing the raise " being obliged to drop out. Three cards are dealt to each player, and a thirteenth, called the retourne, when four play, turned up. Each player must then See also:

bet, See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call, raise or drop out. When a call is made the hands are shown and the best See also:

hand wins. The hands See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank as follows: brelan carre, four of a See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind, one being the retourne; See also:

SIMPLE

simple brelan, three of a kind, See also:

ACE (derived through the Lat. as, from the Tarentine form of the Gr. etc)

ace being high; brelan favori, three of a kind, one being the retourne. When no player holds a brelan the hand holding the greatest number of pips wins, ace counting 11, and See also:

court cards io.

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