Also trisette, trissett, tresset. [Ital. tresette, f. tre three, sette seven, F. tré-sept.] An Italian card-game for four persons, played with a pack of 40 cards (the 8, 9, and 10 of each suit being excluded), in which the 3 and 7 are the winning cards.
1785. C’tess Rosenberg, Ess., II. 109. A priest who used to come every day to make up my father’s party at trisette.
1858. Miss Brightwell, Life Linnæus, 172. Mostly played at the Swedish game of trissett.
1902. trans. Ct. Kielmansegge’s Diary, 57. We were home by dinner-time, and spent that evening … at Richmond, playing a game of tresset amongst ourselves.
1903. Review of Rev., Aug., 250/2. He liked … to sit down … to a four-cornered card game of tresette.
