belote

• belotte

Borrowed from French belote.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈlɒt/

belote (uncountable)

1. A trick-taking card game using a 32 card deck.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 471:

     At the Sphinx where he went rather sedately to play belotte and drink (with a timid air) an absinthe, which he hated, he had met a charming friend of his new wife [...].

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• belote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• bolete

From the name of F Belot, ‘a Frenchman who perfected the game’ (OED).

• IPA^(key): /bəlɔt/

belote f (plural belotes)

1. (uncountable) belote
2. (countable) king and queen of the trump suit, in the game belote

• belote on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• “belote” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).