Word info

Forty Thieves

Noun

Meaning

Forty Thieves (uncountable)

A solitaire card game, similar to Klondike, but starting with ten columns of four visible cards on the tableau.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways. Neil Gaiman

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward. Martin Scorsese

In 1971, Miyazaki played a decisive role in developing structure, characters and designs for Hiroshi Ikeda 's adaptation of Animal Treasure Island and the adaptation of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by Hiroshi Shidara. Source: Internet

Lear 2007, p. 33 When she started to illustrate, she chose first the traditional rhymes and stories, " Cinderella ", " Sleeping Beauty ", " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ", " Puss-in-boots ", and " Red Riding Hood ". Source: Internet

We sat down with them to chat about their educational residency program at Forty Thieves. Source: Internet

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