history of the four kings
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Said to have originated in France, where the kings in a pack of cards once bore the names of four real historical kings.
Noun
[edit]history of the four kings (plural not attested)
- (obsolete, slang, humorous) A pack of cards.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary