costly colours

English

Alternative forms

• costly colors

Noun

costly colours (uncountable)

1. An English card game for two players, similar to cribbage and particularly popular in Shropshire.
   • 1882, John Ashton, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, page 104:

     Other games were cribbage, all fours, ruff and honours, French ruff, five cards, costly colours, bon ace, putt, plain dealing, Queen Nazareen, pennech, post and pair, bankafalat, beast.

Further reading

• costly colours on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “costly colours | costly colors, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.