misère
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[edit]Borrowed from French misère. Doublet of misery.
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[edit]misère (plural misères)
- (card games, whist and others) A bid to lose every trick, or the majority of tricks, with no trumps.
- 1895, Barry Pain, Jerome Klapka Jerome (contributors), To-Day, A Weekly Magazine-Journal[1], volume 9, number 105, page 248:
- The exasperating frequency of hands where one card alone, such as a king or ace, supported by a deuce only, or king or ace bare, debars the holder from calling misère is an experience common to every player.
Adjective
[edit]misère (not comparable)
- Played according to the reverse of the usual winning convention.
- A strategy in misère backgammon is to put six blots in a row.
- Of a game, in which a player that is unable to move wins.
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[edit]misère f (plural misères)
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[edit]misère
Further reading
[edit]- “misère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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