Boston
/ˈbɔstən/ noun C2- In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
- A Boston lettuce.
Plural Bostons
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Josie Pye says he is a distinguished artist, and that her mother’s cousin in Boston is married to a man that used to go to school with him.
We may like bouillotte, delight in whist, be enraptured with boston, and yet grow tired of them all; but we always come back to écarté—it is not only a game, it is a hors-d’œuvre!
Because the sun appears to travel westward, noon in Boston arrived roughly twelve minutes earlier than noon in New York, a difference that hardly mattered as long as nobody could travel between the two cities quickly.
He said, “Hello, I need a ticket to Boston.”
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