costly colours

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costly colours

noun costly colors

uncountable An English card game for two players, similar to cribbage and particularly popular in Shropshire. Other games were cribbage, all fours, ruff and honours, French ruff, five cards, costly colours, bon ace, putt, plain dealing, Queen Nazareen, pennech, post and pair, bankafalat, beast.

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@misc{costly_colours_2026,
  title = {costly colours},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/costly%20colours},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}