
1) Comparing card game 2) French card game
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Brelan (O. Fr. brelenc, hence a name for a card player, gambler or the name of the place where the game was played.), is a famous French vying game with rapidly escalating bets from the seventeenth to nineteenth century. The game is quite similar to the game of Bouillotte, but it is not played anymore. ==History== The game of Brelan, even breland ...
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• (n.) In French games, a pair royal, or triplet. • (n.) A French gambling game somewhat like poker.
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Bre·lan' noun [ French]
(Card Playing) (a) A French gambling game somewhat like poker.
(b) In French games, a pair royal, or triplet.
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