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yarborough
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yar·bor·ough  (yärbûr, -br, -br-)
n. Games
A bridge or whist hand containing no honor cards.
[After Charles Anderson Worsley, Second Earl of Yarborough (1809-1897), said to have bet 1,000 to 1 that such a hand would not occur.]
yarborough
Noun
Bridge, whist a hand in which no card is higher than nine [supposedly after the second earl of Yarborough, said to have bet a thousand to one against its occurrence]


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