Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To play a card with a view to deceiving one's adversary as to the true holding in the suit, as to win with the ace when holding the king also.

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Examples

  • A fine technician, intuitive, so subtle is Papa that he can false-card with a singleton.

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

  • A fine technician, intuitive, so subtle is Papa that he can false-card with a singleton.

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

  • “I return the ♠ 6,” announced S.B., “a delicate false-card, revealing nothing, helping no one.”

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

  • “I return the ♠ 6,” announced S.B., “a delicate false-card, revealing nothing, helping no one.”

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

  • A fine technician, intuitive, so subtle is Papa that he can false-card with a singleton.

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

  • “I return the ♠ 6,” announced S.B., “a delicate false-card, revealing nothing, helping no one.”

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

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