bridge whist meaning
Noun: bridge whist brijwist
- The earliest form of bridge; the dealer could name the trump suit
Type of: bridge
- whist: Noun: whist & ...
- dummy whist: Noun: dummy whist& ...
- long whist: Noun: long whistA ...
Examples
More: Next- In the 1890s, a variant known as bridge whist became popular which eventually evolved into contract bridge.
- Bridge whist, as it was originally called because it was played on the bridge of the ship, started to become popular in America in the 1920s.
- Besides this, he was an avid jazz collector and a true connoisseur of the bridge whist game, but found time to teach marketing techniques at universities throughout Venezuela.
- On the evening of the sinking, she was playing bridge ( this would have been bridge whist, a today's game ) in a first-class saloon before retiring to the cabin that she shared with her mother.
- Over the years, Becker managed three New York bridge clubs ( the Cavendish 1942-47, the New York Bridge Whist 1948-50 and the Regency 1951-56 ) and for thirty years was a nationally syndicated columnist.
