In card games, a sequence of four cards of the same suit in consecutive order, similar to a flush or straight in poker.
From French 'quarte' (four) related to 'four,' representing a specific poker hand classification. The term comes from older card game terminology where sequences and card combinations had French names.
In the hierarchy of poker and other card games, a fourquine (or quarte) is more valuable than three of a kind but less valuable than certain other hands—knowing these rankings was crucial in 18th-century card rooms where fortunes were won and lost based on subtle hand value differences.
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