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Yar⋅bor⋅ough

  [yahr-bur-oh, -buhr-oh or, especially Brit., -ber-uh]
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–noun Whist, Bridge.
a hand in which no card is higher than a nine.
Origin:
1895–1900; after the 2nd Earl of Yarborough (d. 1897), said to have bet 1000 to 1 against its occurrence
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yar·bor·ough   (yär'bûr'ō, -bŭr'ō, -bər-ə)   
n.   Games
A bridge or whist hand containing no honor cards.

[After Charles Anderson Worsley, Second Earl of Yarborough (1809-1897), said to have bet 1,000 to 1 that such a hand would not occur.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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