belote

See also: Belote

English

Alternative forms

• belotte

Etymology

Borrowed from French belote.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈlɒt/

Noun

belote (uncountable)

1. A trick-taking card game using a 32 card deck.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 471:

     At the Sphinx where he went rather sedately to play belotte and drink (with a timid air) an absinthe, which he hated, he had met a charming friend of his new wife [...].

Translations

card game

• Armenian: բլոտ (blot)
• Bulgarian: бело́т m (belót)
• Polish: belotka f

See also

• bridge
• manille
• klaverjas
• belote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bolete

French

Etymology

From the name of F Belot, ‘a Frenchman who perfected the game’ (OED).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bə.lɔt/

• Audio:

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Noun

belote f (plural belotes)

1. (uncountable) belote
2. (countable) king and queen of the trump suit, in the game belote

Descendants

• → Armenian: բլոտ (blot)
• → Bulgarian: бело́т (belót)
• → Polish: belotka

See also

• belote on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Further reading

• “belote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.