YARBOROUGH


Meaning of YARBOROUGH in English

/yahr"berr'oh, -bur'oh/ or, esp. Brit., /-beuhr euh/ , n. Whist, Bridge.

a hand in which no card is higher than a nine.

[ 1895-1900; after the 2nd Earl of Yarborough (d. 1897), said to have bet 1000 to 1 against its occurrence ]

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