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/sˌɑlətˈɛr/ Listen

Solitaire

noun

A gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself.

Extinct flightless bird related to the dodo. Synonym: Pezophaps solitaria.

A dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song.

A card game played by one person. Synonym: patience.

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"Solitaire" Quotes from Famous Books

... that morning recurred to him. He pulled his hat over his eyes, half turned in his seat, and, picking up a greasy pack of cards that lay on the table began to lay them out before him as in solitaire. But under the brim of his sombrero, his keen eyes stole frequent glances at the two, who had now adjourned to a table in the farther corner and were engaged in ...

— Bert Wilson in the Rockies • J. W. Duffield

... "won't you please let your father put this ring on your engagement finger?" and he gave Mr. Walton a magnificent solitaire diamond. ...

— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe

... was Danvers Carmichael, the cards spread before him, making a solitaire, and at a little distance, holding the bridle of his gray horse, stood the Duke of Borthwicke, who, I judge, had interrupted by his entrance a morning talk between Danvers and Nancy. There was a peculiar gleam in the eyes ...

— Nancy Stair - A Novel • Elinor Macartney Lane

... caught the wanderer but kept right on without pause to the trickle of water under the flat wide-spreading tree—it was a solitaire, being king of its own domain and the only shade, except the ...

— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan

... up before a large house on the upper avenue, one of those houses which advertise affluence with as little reticence as a fat diamond solitaire. ...

— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse

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