‖ reversis Now only Hist.
[a. F. reversis, variant of reversi.]
a. = reversi 1.
| 1796 (title) Rules of Reversis, as played in the Fashionable Circles. By a Gentleman. 1814 Hoyle's Games 163 (Stanf.), Reversis is played by four persons... For this game the tens must be taken out from a pack of cards. 1816 Singer Hist. Cards 266 Reversis is a French game, which, Bullet imagines, was invented in the Court of Francis the First. 1876 Catal. Cards Brit. Mus. 51 A game termed Mawe succeeded Primero, then came Gleek, Hombre, Quadrille, Reversis, and Bassett. 1977 Jrnl. Playing-Card Soc. May 23 Reversis is historically important as the earliest known negative complex trick-taking game. |
b. to make the reversis (see quot.).
| 1830 ‘Eidrah Trebor’ Hoyle Made Familiar 40 When every trick is made by the same person, there is no party, and this is called making the Reversis. 1977 Jrnl. Playing-Card Soc. May 28 To make reversis a player must win all eleven tricks. |