Manille

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  • n. The second-highest trump in certain card games.
  • n. A card game played with a deck of 32, in which the ten (or ‘manille’) is the highest in each suit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See 1st manilla, 1.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as manilio. Ash.
  • n. The highest card but one in the games of omber and quadrille. :
  • Word Usage
    ""manille" for infinitesimal points, they would all shout and gesticulate violently, as only Southern Frenchmen can, relapsing as the discussion grew more heated into their native Provencal, for though Nyons is geographically in Dauphine, climatically and racially it is in Provence."
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    manilla