Joel provides the example:

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> However, among the better class of bridge-players, "six pieces of
>> club," for example, is preferred to the more mundane "six clubs," when
>> speaking of one's holdings. I first heard the long form spoken by a
>> West Indian, leading me to regard this erroneously as a foreignism.
>> Later, I had occasion to hear the jargon of bridge as used by the
>> better class of players, allowing me to correct my initial
>> mispreapprehension.
>>
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> Does this mean six cards of the club suit? If so, it's a very sensible way
> of distinguishing it from "six of clubs".
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It *does* mean "six cards of the club suit" as opposed to "six of
clubs" or "(I bid) six clubs." Good catch! I hadn't thought of that.

-Wilson
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