canasta
a variety of rummy in which the main object is to meld sets of seven or more cards.
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How to use canasta in a sentence
They shared home-cooked meals, bottles of tequila and spirited games of canasta in their homes in mountainous Western Maryland.
900,000 infected. Nearly 15,000 dead. How the coronavirus tore through D.C., Maryland and Virginia. | Rebecca Tan, Antonio Olivo, John D. Harden | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostThere were the Jones' for bridge and the Graysons' for canasta and charades with the Bryants.
Time Enough at Last | Lyn VenableAnd sometime soon make plans to have Horace and Ethel over for an evening of four-handed canasta.
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British Dictionary definitions for canasta
/ (kəˈnæstə) /
a card game for two to six players who seek to amass points by declaring sets of cards
Also called: meld a declared set in this game, containing seven or more like cards, worth 500 points if the canasta is pure or 300 if wild (containing up to three jokers)
Origin of canasta
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