BASSET

Basset

Basset, also known as barbacole and hocca, is a gambling card game that was considered one of the most polite. It was intended for persons of the highest rank because of the great losses or gains that might be accrued by players.

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basset

Noun

  1. The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
  2. A card game resembling faro.

Verb

  1. To incline upward so as to appear at the surface.
    A vein of coal bassets.


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