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Klondike

noun

A region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910.

A form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time.

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"Klondike" Quotes from Famous Books

... she dropped into the outstretched arms of Mr. Godfrey Vandeford, who was prowling around Weehawken and the vicinity for just such ripe fruit as she when he was casting his first musical girl-show for the purpose of some violent excitement after a snowed-in winter in the Klondike. ...

— Blue-grass and Broadway • Maria Thompson Daviess

... closed now, of course, as the races for the day were run. But I could imagine it doing a fine business in the afternoon. There were many other games now in progress, games of every description, from poker to faro, keno, klondike, and roulette. There was nothing of either high or low degree with which the ...

— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve

... rot—as it does—on Obscurity's shelf: Thus the national hoard shall with profit be stored (with a trifle of course for myself): For lectures are dear in that fortunate sphere, and are paid for at fabulous rates,— All the gold of Klondike isn't anything like to the sums that are made in ...

— Lyra Frivola • A. D. Godley

... you, we-all were impressed with your resemblance to our old friend. So now I want to ask you if there ever was any one in your family who went to the Klondike ...

— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... of dog Buck was in the fall of 1897, when the Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North. But Buck did not read the newspapers, and he did not know that Manuel, one of the gardener's helpers, was an undesirable acquaintance. Manuel had one besetting sin. He loved to ...

— The Call of the Wild • Jack London

Words linked to "Klondike" : geographic region, Yukon, geographical region, patience, Yukon Territory, geographic area, solitaire, geographical area