MournivalFour cards all alike, as four aces, four kings, etc., in a game of cards called Gleek. Gleek is three cards alike. A mournival of aces, gleek of knaves, Just nine a-piece. Albumazar, iii. 5. Poole in his English Parnassus called the four elements Nature's first mournival. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Mournival from Infoplease:
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