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Belote vs Blote - What's the difference?

belote | blote |

As a noun belote

is a trick-taking card game using a 32 card deck.

As a verb blote is

to cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

belote

English

Alternative forms

* belotte

Noun

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  • A trick-taking card game using a 32 card deck.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 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 [...].

    See also

    * bridge * manille * klaverjas * (wikipedia "belote")

    Anagrams

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    blote

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
    • (Webster 1913) ----