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five hundred

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five hundred, card game, similar in principle to euchre euchre (y
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, usually played by three persons with a pack of 32 cards and a joker. Each player receives 10 cards, and highest bidder for the widow (the three cards left over) names trump. The two other players play in temporary combination against the bidder, and 500 points wins the game. In the early 20th cent. five hundred was very popular in the United States.


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If it were so, the number of sides in a Circle would be a mere question of pedigree and arithmetic, and the four hundred and ninety-seventh descendant of an Equilateral Triangle would necessarily be a Polygon with five hundred sides.
Granted that each piece gives you five hundred, multiply five hundred by five.
A subscription of five hundred pounds, my Lady, would provide for everything--if it could only be collected.
 
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