Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… Met Museum, 41.77.1, 1791 At the beginning of the eighteenth century, games like Ombre , Basset , Piquet , imported from European courts—respectively Spain, France and Italy—were well established in England. Quadrille , a variant of the three-player Spanish card game Ombre , originally played by the French nobility, rapidly spread throughout Europe. In England, it was soon rivalled by Whist . Whist or Whisk was born in England in 1687. Gentlemen from the West …
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