Definitions for primeros

primeros pri·me·ro

Spelling: [pri-mair-oh]
IPA: /prɪˈmɛər oʊ/

Primeros is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 303 anagrams from letters in primeros (eimoprrs).

Definitions for primeros

noun

  1. a card game fashionable in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Origin of primeros

1525-35; Spanish: literally, first Latin prīmārius primary

Examples for primeros

REST, "set up one's—," venture one's all, one's last stake (from game of primero).

But if there was one man he hated more than another, it was his neighbour Mr. primero; and if one woman, it was Mrs. primero.

Near them play was going on at one table, and primero at a second.

The primero and Segundo, which rise in the province of Cordova, disappear in the same plains.

primero, whom Mr. Longestaffe regarded as quite an upstart, and anything but a gentleman, owed no man anything.

So Decker: "Talke of none but lords and such ladies with whom you have plaid at primero."

The rules of primero moreover demand that if there are but two players, a third and disinterested party shall deal the cards.

primero, or ombre, is said to be the ancestor of our modern game of poker.

And now there had come into Suffolk a rumour that Mr. primero was to have a peerage.

No; but we shall find ourselves nearly on the banks of the river primero, and might set ourselves adrift on a raft.

Word Value for primeros
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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