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primero

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pri⋅me⋅ro

  [pri-mair-oh]
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–noun
a card game fashionable in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Origin:
1525–35; < Sp: lit., first < L prīmārius primary
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pri·me·ro   (prĭ-mâr'ō)   
n.  A gambling card game, popular in Elizabethan England.

[Alteration of Spanish primera, feminine of primero, first, from Latin prīmārius, principal, from prīmus, first; see prime.]
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