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pinocle

WordNet
  1. (n) pinocle
    a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Pinocle
    A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.
Usage in literature

All they can see in it is riding in parlour cars and playing auction pinocle in four-dollar-a-day hotels. "Abe and Mawruss" by Montague Glass

Husky Marr and Black Shand Fraser were playing pinocle at the table, bickering over the game like a pair of ill-conditioned schoolboys. "The Huntress" by Hulbert Footner

Just at present, though, we are going to spiel a little pinocle and we would talk business afterward. "Elkan Lubliner, American" by Montague Glass

He's a dabster at pinocle. "Frank Merriwell's Backers" by Burt L. Standish