Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A card game similar to pinochle that is played with a deck of 64 cards.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
trick -takingcard game for two players. - noun The act of taking certain cards in this game: the queen of spades and jack of diamonds, or (if either of those suits is
trumps ) the queen of clubs and jack of hearts.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“Agnes, Gornt Blakeman, the man I played bezique with a few nights past, the one who—”
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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In bezique there was no requirement to follow suit in this early part of the game; face value was all that mattered.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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Then Joyful trumped the king of spades with the seven of diamonds and said quietly, “I declare a double bezique.”
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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“Agnes, Gornt Blakeman, the man I played bezique with a few nights past, the one who—”
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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Then Joyful trumped the king of spades with the seven of diamonds and said quietly, “I declare a double bezique.”
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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In bezique there was no requirement to follow suit in this early part of the game; face value was all that mattered.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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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.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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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.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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She knew that bezique was a game of cards — or a game of something else.
Main Street 2004
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But no sooner had she gone, than he rang for Mrs Bolton, and asked her to take a hand at piquet or bezique, or even chess.
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