German - English
Definition of schellen-daus in German English dictionary
- ace of diamonds
- One of the 52 playing cards from a standard pack as used for bridge and poker, with a single pip, with a nominal value of 1, and with the diamonds suit
Its effect is, that a print, or an ornamented drawing, with any object, such as an ace of diamonds. etc. in the centre F, (fig 6.) will be seen as the ace of clubs when it is placed in the machine ABCD, and viewed through a single glass only contained in the tube E.
- the ace in the diamond suit
- Schellendaus
- ace of diamonds