Pedro Sancho

[ pee-droh san-choh, pey-droh sahn-choh ]

noun

1. Cards. a form of the game pedro in which both the five and the nine of trumps count for their face value, and the ten of trumps wins the game.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pedro Sancho¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Finally, a small portion of Pedro Sancho's narrative was issued by the Hakluyt Society of London.

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Errors Pedro Sancho has in plenty; but the editor has striven to counteract them by footnotes.

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A word as to the previous editions of Pedro Sancho may not be out of place here.

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In every instance the translator has preserved Pedro Sancho's spelling of proper names, calling attention to the modern equivalent on the first occurrence of each name.

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The work of Pedro Sancho is one of the most valuable accounts of the Spanish conquest of Peru that we possess.

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