Citations:preference

sense: card game

 * c. 1851, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, chapter 8:
 * The friendship begun over bread and butter extended on to cards. Lady Glenmire played Preference to admiration, and was a complete authority as to Ombre and Quadrille.
 * 1895?, Constance Garnett, translation of, 1852, Ivan Turgenev, "The District Doctor", 2010 Project Gutenberg edition:
 * "Well, shall it be preference?"
 * We sat down to preference for halfpenny points.
 * 1903?, Isabel F. Hapgood?, translation of, 1852, Ivan Turgenieff, "The District Doctor" :
 * "But how about that game of preference?"
 * We sat down to play preference, for kopék stakes.
 * 1916, Constance Garnett, translation of, 1872, Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed, 2005 Project Gutenberg edition, part 1, chapter 5 ("The Subtle Serpent"), section 6:
 * He used to spend his time chiefly in playing preference with a greasy old pack of cards for stakes of a quarter-farthing with clerks.