Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Boston"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Boston \Bos"ton\, n.
A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of
fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston,
Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the
French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

Boston
n : state capital and largest city of Massachusetts [syn: {Boston},
{Hub of the Universe}, {Beantown}, {capital of
Massachusetts}]


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