How to pronounce whist

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What whist means

noun

An old card game for four players in teams of two

In a sentence: On winter evenings, my great-aunts played whist at the kitchen table in pairs.

Where it comes from: It is a changed form of whisk, perhaps from whisking up the cards after each trick. It may also have been shaped by whist, an old word meaning hush.

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