Anna Karenina vocabulary

3 vocabulary words related to games, dances, etc.

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quadrille
mazurka
bezique
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bezique

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Definition:
a card game that was the forerunner of pinochle. A variation was Winston Churchill's favorite game

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He passed in review of the places he might go to. "Club? a game of bezique, champagne with Ignatov? No, I'm not going. Château des Fleurs; there I shall find Oblonsky, songs, the cancan.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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I had to lunch with Mrs. Van Hopper in her room, because the nurse was going out, and afterwards she would make me play bezique with all the tireless energy of the convalescent.

Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca (1938)
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