Definition of "whists" []

• Plural form of whist. (noun)

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• "For the privilege of being invited to teas, bridge whists, of being sure of a place in the local social life."
• "In a large, all-frescoed, seventy-five dollars an evening with lights and cloak-room service ballroom of the Hotel Walsingham, a family hostelry in that family circle of St. Louis known as its West End, the city holds not a few of its charity-whists and benefit musicales; on a dais which can be carried in for the purpose, morning readings of"