tredrille

_ The variety of the game called tredrille -- the Ombre of

Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825

_ Quadrille is played with forty cards: tredrille usually with thirty: sometimes, as in Pope's Ombre, with twenty-seven.

Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825

I was playing eighteenpenny tredrille with the Duchess of

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757