boston

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1. boston - Noun

2. Boston - Proper noun

Meaning

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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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. Fred Allen

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill and there they will remain forever. Daniel Webster

Tonight I appear for the first time before a Boston audience -- 4000 critics. Mark Twain

In Boston they ask, How much does he know In New York, How much is he worth In Philadelphia, Who were his parents. Mark Twain

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston. Anthony Trollope

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married. George J. Mitchell

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