belote
English translation: belote
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| 08:21 Aug 25, 2003 |
| French to English translations [Non-PRO] / name of a card game | ||||
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|  Selected response from: Sheila Hardie Spain Local time: 05:53 | |||
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| 4 +9 | belote = the name of a card game |
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| 5 +2 | belote |
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| 4 +1 | card game |
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| 1 | pelota |
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16 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1card game Explanation: The game you see all these people playing in cafés. Don't know if it has an English name and equivalent. I've always thought of it as whist, but belote is played with only 32 cards. Maybe it's a form of euchre. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-08-25 08:42:03 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The web indicates that it has no English equivalent, so is called belote, though my Larousse Lexis says the game comes from Holland. |
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8 mins confidence:
pelota Explanation: Could it be this one? What kind of game are you referring to? More context, please. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 16 mins (2003-08-25 08:38:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- OK then, following Andrew\'s comment, I\'d leave this untranslated, see e.g. http://www.nimbustier.net/contree/index-en.html and http://www.intersearching.co.uk/directory/index.php/Games/Ca... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 mins (2003-08-25 08:39:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ...which means that \"belote\" is used in English, too. Reference: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/... |
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