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“I left him at primero with the Duke of Suffolk.”—Shakespeare: Henry VIII., i. 2.


⁂ “Four cards were dealt to each player, the principal groups being flush, prime, and point Flush was the same as in ‘pokerprime was one card of each suit, and point was reckoned as in ‘piquet.ʹ”—Cyclopœdia of Games, p. 270.

 

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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.

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Pridwin
Priest … Knight
Priest of the Blue-bag
Prig
Prima Donna (Italian)
Prima Facie (Latin)
Primary Colours
Prime
Primed
Primero
Primitive Fathers (The)
Primrose (George)
Primrose
Primum Mobile
Primus
Prince
Prince of Wales (The)
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Prince’s Peers
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