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/klˈɑndˌaɪk/ Listen

Klondike

noun

A region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910.

A form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time.

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"Klondike" Quotes from Famous Books

... the shape of archaic ornaments, whose value, I admit, is largely extrinsic. But gold is gold, from Phoenicia to Klondike, and if we cleared the room we ...

— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung

... Miss," he said, "that you can count on me. They know me in the Klondike from Juneau to Circle City and down the whole length of the Yukon. Many a night I've laid in the snow up there where I worked like a slave for three years, and wondered if I'd ever have anybody to like me. I didn't want all that dust just myself. I thought ...

— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry

... laughed all through the performance. Afterward, he strolled into the billiard-room, where Billy Price and Chauncey Venable were having an exciting bout; and from there to the smoking-room, where the stout little Major had gotten a group of young bloods about him to play "Klondike." This was a game of deadly hazards, which they played without limit; the players themselves were silent and impassive, but the spectators who gathered about were tense ...

— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair

... Then we passed through a country where for many hours the talk in the cars was of mines and the treatment of ores. Men told one tales—prospectors' yarns of the sort one used to hear vaguely before Klondike or Nome were public property. They did not care whether one believed or doubted. They, too, were only at the beginning of things—silver perhaps, gold perhaps, nickel perhaps. If a great city did not arise at such a place—the very name was ...

— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling

Words linked to "Klondike" : patience, geographical area, solitaire, geographic area, geographic region, geographical region, Yukon, Yukon Territory