biribi

Just then all the great ladies were mad over 'biribi', a regular cheating game.

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

Just then all the great ladies were mad over 'biribi', a regular cheating game.

Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 21: South of France Giacomo Casanova 1761

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But the splendid houses with their marble peristyles, and the painted villas in their orange-groves along the shore, housed a dull and narrow-minded society, content to amass wealth and play biribi under the eyes of their ancestral Vandykes, without any concern as to the questions agitating the world.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

The lady's toilet completed, to the adjusting of the last patch, he must attend her to dinner, where, placed at her side, he was awarded the honour of carving the roast; must sit through two hours of biribi in company with the abatino, the doctor, and half-a-dozen parasites of the noble table; and for two hours more must ride in her gilt coach up and down the promenade of the Valentino.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

Beaufort and the actress Mademoiselle Descoings, presiding all night long over a _trente-et-un_ or _biribi_ table and an adept at _rouge et noir_, she still found time to be charitable to her friends.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

Rochemaure, a woman of gallantry, at whose house they played _biribi_, and is addressed to one _citoyen_ Rauline; but is really for an _émigré_ in the service of Pitt.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

Faro and biribi were the only pillars of his house; but they must have been strong ones, for he lived in great style.

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

A man accosted us, and invited us to come and play biribi at his house.

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

He had degraded the lottery to the level of biribi; his luxury and extravagance caused him to be distrusted; it was known that he was head over ears in debt, and the king could not banish the fear that he would be cheated in spite of the keenness of his comptroller - general.

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827