英和和英

語源

From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.

発音

• IPA: /kəˈnæstə/

名詞

canasta (plural canastas)

1. (uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
   • 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, “Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You”, in ABA Journal, page 492:

     “Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”
     “Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn′t know you could play that silly game.”

   • 2004, Gregory Bateson, “15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy”, in Henry Bial, editor, The Performance Studies Reader, page 130:

     Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules. […] We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.

   • 2011, Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies, unnumbered page:

     Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.

2. (countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
   • 1949 December 19, “The Canasta Craze”, in Life (magazine), page 47:

     Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.

アナグラム

• Castana