imperials

Noun

imperial (countable and uncountable, plural imperials)

1. A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
2. (paper) A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
3. (uncountable) A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
4. (countable) Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
5. A crown imperial.
   • There are who say the sonnet's meted maze
     Is all too fettered for the poet's powers,
     Compelled to crowd his flush and airy flowers
     Like pots of tall imperials, ill at ease.1816, John Freeman Milward Dovaston, The Sonnet
6. A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).

   Synonyms:

   royal

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