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Definition of "bézique" [bezique]

  • A card game similar to pinochle that is played with a deck of 64 cards. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bézique" in a sentence
  • "In bezique there was no requirement to follow suit in this early part of the game; face value was all that mattered."
  • "Then Joyful trumped the king of spades with the seven of diamonds and said quietly, “I declare a double bezique.”"
  • "The night they played bezique, when Delight so openly invited Joyful to her bed and he equally openly refused, Blakeman would have known about that."