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prial

prial is the alternative form of pair royal.

Meaning of pair royal

Noun

pair royal (plural pairs royal)

  1. three of a kind in certain card games.
    • Given a choice of pairing or making fifteen with the previously played card, prefer to peg 2 for the fifteen rather than make the pair and perhaps give your opponent a pair royal.1979, David Parlett, The Penguin Book of Card Games (paperback), Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 343
    Synonyms:
    prial

Forms of prial

pluralprials

Origin of prial

Shortening of pair royal.

Questions about prial

What is prial the alternative form of?
Prial is the alternative form of pair royal.

Words near prial in the dictionary

  1. PRI
  2. Priabonian
  3. priacanthid
  4. priacanthids
  5. priah
  6. prial
  7. prials
  8. Priam
  9. prian
  10. prianik
  11. prianiki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prial (page history and authors); pair royal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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