Out of date; no longer in vogue; exhausted.
“Valentines, I suppose, are played out, said Milton.”—Truth: Queer Story, Feb. 18, 1886.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.