Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To silence; still.
- To become silent.
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- noun Plural form of
whist .
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Examples
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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.
The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916
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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
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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