mournival
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perhaps from French mornifle (“a card game”).
Noun
mournival (plural mournivals)
- (card games, obsolete) In the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value.
- 1677, John Dryden, The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R. Bentley, and M. Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 37:
- Before George, there's not enough to rig out a Mournival of VVhores: they'l think me grown a meer Curmudgeon. Mercy on me, how will this glorious Trade be carri'd on, with ſuch a miſerable Stock!
References
- “mournival”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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