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How to pronounce pinochle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bezique, penuchle, pinocle
Type of card game, cards

Examples of pinochle

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The pinochle players last week came from Elburn, North Aurora, Aurora and Oswego.
From the dailyherald.com
Nonmusical offerings include a computer lab, pinochle, bingo, bunco and aerobics.
From the courier-journal.com
As a socialist, Obama could not even get into my grandfather's pinochle game.
From the washingtonpost.com
Bridge is a trick-taking card game, like euchre, pinochle, hearts or spades.
From the freep.com
If it proves successful, officials are thinking of adding pinochle in 2012.
From the philly.com
He enjoys rock collecting and pinochle, and he used to volunteer with Senior Gleaners.
From the sacbee.com
The sheriff plays pinochle at the kitchen table with some of the girls who aren't working.
From the theatlantic.com
As a boy he was fascinated by games of all sorts, from pinochle to chess.
From the economist.com
The noise is so bad, she said, that she has stopped hosting her pinochle club on weekends.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • A card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
  • Pinochle (sometimes pinocle, or penuchle) is a trick-taking game typically for two, three or four players and played with a 48 card deck. Derived from the card game bezique, players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds. ...
  • A card game, similar to bezique; A meld of jack of diamonds and queen of spades in said card game
  • A game of cards played by 2-4 persons with a 48-card deck (two each of ace through nine in all four suits) that's so-called from a flush meld of the queen of spades and the jack of diamonds in this game; also known as penuchle, penuckle, or pinocle, after the binocular spectacles known as pince- ...