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skat
[ skaht, skat ]
noun
- a card game for three players, using a pack of 32 playing cards, sevens through aces, the object being to fulfill any of various contracts, with scoring computed on strategy and on tricks won.
skat
/ skæt /
noun
- a three-handed card game using 32 cards, popular in German-speaking communities
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of skat1
C19: from German, from Italian scarto played cards, from scartare to discard, from s- ex- 1+ carta, from Latin charta card 1
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Example Sentences
"We expect you on Wednesday for Skat," said Mrs. Freudenthal.
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Even the skat players gave their attention for a few moments at a time.
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In their corner the skat players were sitting over their cards.
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Skat, skat, n. a game played with thirty-two cards as in Piquet, and said to have been invented in 1817 in Altenburg.
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And in that case all would be lost; but those skat players, it seemed to him, would go on playing undisturbed.
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