cold deck

[George Thompson]

This isn't much of an antedating, but it is still nice.


Changing packs, or wringing [sic] in "cold decks," is practiced in this
game to a great extent. . . .  Life in Boston and New England Police
Gazette, January 4, 1851, p. 2, col. 1

HDAS: 1857

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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