Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In games, three of a kind.
- noun An ancient French game very much like poker, but played with only three cards in each player's hand. It is now superseded by bouillotte.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A French gambling game somewhat like poker.
- noun In French games, a pair royal, or triplet.
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Examples
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I thought I should have fainted, when she said, in a triumphant tone, I have the 'brelan' of kings.
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I thought I should have fainted, when she said, in a triumphant tone, I have the 'brelan' of kings.
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The 'brelan' over, she ran to Madame de Maintenon; told her what had just occurred; said that the presence of M. de Vendome at Marly was a continual insult to her; and begged her to solicit the King to forbid M. de Vendome to come there.
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I thought I should have fainted, when she said, in a triumphant tone, I have the 'brelan' of kings.
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There, from 1802 to 1804, all the bourgeois of Soulanges played at dominoes and a game of cards called "brelan," drank tiny glasses of liqueur or boiled wine, and ate brandied fruits and biscuits; for the dearness of colonial products had banished coffee, sugar, and chocolate.
Sons of the Soil Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The 'brelan' over, she ran to Madame de Maintenon; told her what had just occurred; said that the presence of M. de Vendome at Marly was a continual insult to her; and begged her to solicit the King to forbid M. de Vendome to come there.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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The 'brelan' over, she ran to Madame de Maintenon; told her what had just occurred; said that the presence of M. de Vendome at Marly was a continual insult to her; and begged her to solicit the King to forbid M. de Vendome to come there.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 06 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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Monseigneur the Duc de Bourgogne asked the Duc de Montfort if he would play at brelan.
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Duchesse de Berry presided in the salon at the public lansquenet and brelan; and the different gaming tables for all the Court.
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Playing at brelan one evening, she offered him a stake, and because he would not accept it bantered him, and playfully called him a poltroon.
knitandpurl commented on the word brelan
French card game
September 2, 2008