penchant

Meaning

Noun

Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
A card game resembling bezique.
In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.

Origin

Borrowed from French penchant, present participle of pencher, from Middle French, from Old French pengier, from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere.

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