whist in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

whist in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for whist in the English»Spanish Dictionary

whist Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

a game of whist
una partida de whist
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Reduced to poverty, he ekes out a living by playing whist for money.
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The basic premise of duplicate bridge had previously been used for whist matches as early as 1857.
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Although numerous types of squeezes have been analyzed and catalogued in contract bridge, they were first discovered and described in whist.
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Widow whist is named because of an extra hand that is dealt just to the left of the dealer.
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His father was celebrated as a player of whist and the author of a treatise on that subject, as well as an amateur composer.
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A "pool point" or "dump point" is worth 10 whist points.
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One visitor wrote that amusements included sailing, fishing, rowing, walking, riding in buggy and on horseback, whist, enchre, backgammon and hunting.
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The general rules of dummy whist are similar to that of bid whist, with two notable exceptions.
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If precisely one of the defenders decides to whist, then that player has a choice between playing normally and "playing in the light".
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The precursor to contract bridge, its predecessors were whist and bridge whist.
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