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Playing cards. A Presbyterian phrase, used in reproof of the term King’s Books, applied to a pack of cards, from the French livre des quatre rois (the book of the four kings). Also called the Devil’s Bible.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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