Meanings
nouncostly colours (uncountable)
alternative costly colors
- uncountableAn English card game for two players, similar to cribbage and particularly popular in Shropshire.
Other games were cribbage, all fours, ruff and honours, French ruff, five cards, costly colours, bon ace, putt, plain dealing, Queen Nazareen, pennech, post and pair, bankafalat, beast.
1882, John Ashton, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, page 104
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