canasta

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Old society games: canasta, domino and many others have been replaced by poker.

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  1. noun A card game for two to six players, related to rummy and requiring two or three decks of cards.

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  • The game that my then new wife taught me was canasta. —  Daily Grit by Wes Thorp
  • Can you use the guitar hero 3 guitar for any other guitar hero games?? could you possibly tell me why yahoo is having trouble w / its games esp w / canasta? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • Skating Director Maria Koman said kids ranging from age 4 to 17 and adults of various ages skated in different categories, such as figure skating, canasta tango, interpretive dance, synchronized formation and jump and spin. —  Vindy.com stories: Vindy.com Newswatch » Breaking News from around Youngstown, Warren, Columbiana Ohio
  • Very few people want to go backwards in time to when, for instance, we had more civic interaction, we took products to repair shops, we knew the butcher, redeemed bottles and played canasta.
  • Moreover, these data are calculated in relation to the canasta básica alimentaria (the basic food needs index), which for the first semester of 2007 was estimated by Indec to be 7,6\% more expensive than in the second semester of 2006. —  Home
 

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  1. Spanish, from canasto, basket, from Latin canistrum; see canister.
 

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