double dummy

noun

, Cards.

1. a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of double dummy¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

At nine o'clock that night the colonel, in immaculate evening-dress, sat playing double-dummy bridge with his two companions.

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I suggested a game of double-dummy bridge, but did not urge it when my companion asked me if it resembled euchre.

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The lion, it will be seen, was self-sacrificing even to the extent of double dummy.

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From that he led her to double-dummy Bridge, and they were still at it when his brother returned.

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The lady would play anything, piquet, écarté, double dummy—and her daughter Elsie hated the sight of cards.

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