Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BAS'SET
BAS'SET, n. [Fr. bassette.]
A game at cards, said to have been invented at Venice, by a nobleman, who was banished for the invention. The game being introduced into France by the Venetian embassador, Justiniani, in 1674, it was prohibited by severe edicts. – Encyc.
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