n. A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war. [ 1913 Webster ]
[あまずら, amazura](n) (1) (arch) (See 蔦) ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata); (2) (See 甘茶蔓) jiaogulan (species of herbaceous vine; Gynostemma pentaphyllum)[Add to Longdo]