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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Boston

/bäs'-tən/ · Bos·ton · IPA /ˈbɔstən/
01 n. 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…
  1. 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.