Earl of Cork

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English[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

the Earl of Cork

  1. (Ireland, slang, obsolete, card games) The ace of diamonds.

References[edit]

  • Edward Samuel Taylor (1865) The History of Playing Cards, page 236
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary