primero

[ pri-mair-oh ]

/ prɪˈmɛər oʊ /

a card game fashionable in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Origin of primero

1525–35; < Spanish: literally, first < Latin prīmārius primary

Entienda primero, y habla postrero—Hear first and speak afterwards.

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources |James Wood
And now there had come into Suffolk a rumour that Mr. Primero was to have a peerage.

The Way We Live Now |Anthony Trollope
Juttuyuhuas es adelante primero; y el otro es a riguroso ordinal numeral, primero.

A Vocabulary or Phrase Book of the Mutsun Language, Spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista, Alta California |Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta
Primero, whom Mr. Longestaffe regarded as quite an upstart, and anything but a gentleman, owed no man anything.

The Way We Live Now |Anthony Trollope

The games at which Henry played appear to be Primero and Imperial.

The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII |Nicholas Harris Nicolas

primero

/ (prɪˈmɛərəʊ) /

mainly British a 16th- and 17th-century card game

C16: from Spanish primera card game, from primero first, from Latin prīmārius chief