Meaning of Pope Julius | Babel Free

Definitions

A sixteenth-century gambling card game about which little is known.

obsolete

Examples

“Of Pope Julius cardys he ys chefe cardynall.”

“Item the laste day delived unto the kings grace whiche his grace lost at pope July game wt my lady marquess and m Weston xvj cor”

“Pope Julio (if I fail not in the name, and sure I am that there is a game of the cards after his name) was a great and wary player, a great vertue in a man of his profession”

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