mournival

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɔː.nɪ.vəl/    美 /ˈmɔɹ.nɪ.vəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value. obsolete
    — Before George, there's not enough to rig out a Mournival of VVhores: they'l think me grown a meer Curmudgeon. Mercy on me, how will this glorious Trade be carri'd on, with ſuch a miſerable Stock!
  2. A set of four people or things; a quartet. archaic,broadly,rare
    — It was, as we shall have occasion to emphasize, not an accidental circumstance that the terror-novel was in the fullest flush of popularity during the seventeen-nineties, and it was also in this decade that Mrs. Radcliffe wrote and published her most characteristic works, A Sicilian Romance, 1790; The Romance of the Forest, 1791; The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794; and The Italian, or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents, 1797, a mournival of Gothic masterpieces.

词形变化

mournivals plural murnival alternative

词源

Perhaps from French mornifle (“a card game”).
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