Definitions
A rummy-like card game played with two decks and melds of matching ranks.
Word origin
From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.
Used in a sentence
““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.””
“Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Meld-making card game”7 letters
02“Rummy-like card game”7 letters
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