How To Use Bezique In A Sentence
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In the United States the most popular form is the two-handed game, known as rubicon bezique, in which four 32-card packs are shuffled together.
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This same Queen cannot be paired with a different Jack, but can be used for a Double Bezique with its original partner.
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By the way, he inquired whether you played 'piquet' or 'bezique,' from which I infer that he is looking for an antagonist with ready money.
The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow
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She knew that bezique was a game of cards — or a game of something else.
Main Street
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A double bezique scores 500 only if all four cards are declared together.
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Lord Paulyn insisted upon playing bezique in a remote corner with Elizabeth, leaving Diana and Hilda to languish in solitude on one of the Grecian couches.
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The night they played bezique, when Delight so openly invited Joyful to her bed and he equally openly refused, Blakeman would have known about that.
City of Glory
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Ana called, ‘I was just asking Alexei if he wanted to play bezique.’
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“Agnes, Gornt Blakeman, the man I played bezique with a few nights past, the one who—”
City of Glory
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Then Joyful trumped the king of spades with the seven of diamonds and said quietly, “I declare a double bezique.”
City of Glory
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The Queen of spades and the Jack of diamonds is the bezique. Simple bezique values in 40 points. Double bezique values in 500 points.
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Bezique is the queen of spades and knave of diamonds, for which the holder scores 40 points.
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Grandmother spent her afternoons with other local ladies, mostly of her age, smoking cigarettes and playing bezique.
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The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers.
Ulysses
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But no sooner had she gone, than he rang for Mrs Bolton, and asked her to take a hand at piquet or bezique, or even chess.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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In like manner, a card which has once figured in "Bezique" cannot be used to form part of a second Bezique, though it may be used to score Double Bezique.
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Bezique in its original version was soon taken up by the UK and became an extremely popular game in the mid-Nineteenth Century.
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In bezique there was no requirement to follow suit in this early part of the game; face value was all that mattered.
City of Glory