boston

A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

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  1. A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

Definitions: Webster's 1913 (public domain)

BOSTON at a glance

BOSTON has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (B 3 + O 1 + S 1 + T 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,093 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

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