mournival
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perhaps from French mornifle (“a card game”).
Noun
mournival (plural mournivals)
- (card games, obsolete) In the game of gleek, four cards of the same face value.
- 1677, John Dryden, The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R. Bentley, and M. Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 37:
- Before George, there's not enough to rig out a Mournival of VVhores: they'l think me grown a meer Curmudgeon. Mercy on me, how will this glorious Trade be carri'd on, with ſuch a miſerable Stock!
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mournival”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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