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