canasta
noun/kəˈnæstə/
/kəˈnæstə/
[uncountable]- a card game played with two packs of cards, in which players try to collect sets of cardsTopics Games and toysc2Word Origin1940s: from Spanish (of Uruguayan origin), literally ‘basket’, based on Latin canistrum ‘basket’, from Greek kanastron ‘wicker basket’, from kanna ‘cane, reed’, kannē, of Semitic origin.
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