Ruff and Honours, a successor of the French game Triomphe (M.Eng. Triumph, Trump) with many different spellings, is a 17th century card game derivative of Ruff, the ancestor of Whist, which in turn was the forerunner of bridge and many other trick-taking card games like Whisk and Swabbers.
Famous quotes containing the words ruff and/or honours:
“My great brother
Lord of the Song
wears the ruff of
forest bear.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelist honours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)