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Pinocle   Listen
noun
Pinocle, Pinochle  n.  (Also spelled penuchle)  A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pinocle" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Mr. Gooch had played pinochle every Friday evening. The Doctor did not especially enjoy it, except as one of those incidents that grows acceptable by long repetition. He was a born routinist, regarding a well-regulated world as a place where everything ran in the same grooves to eternity. One of his chief sources of satisfaction ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice

... were soft about his neck, tight, tighter. "Papa, please! For a couple of thousand we can take that beau-tiful trip I showed you in the booklet. Card-rooms on the steamer, papa. Hannah told me all summer her father played pinochle in Germany, father, right outdoors where they drink beer and eat rye-bread sandwiches all day. In Germany we can even stop at Dusseldorf where you were born, papa—just think, papa, where you were born! In Italy we can make Ray look at the pictures and statues, and all day you can sit outdoors and—and ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... home, and play pinochle, and laugh, and be foolish, and slip up to bed, and sleep without dreaming. It's beautiful to be just a ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis



Words linked to "Pinocle" :   penuchle, card game



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