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(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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Boston'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/boston.html. 1828.
 
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