Canfield

Canfield

Canfield is either of two solitaire/patience card games:
* In British English, it refers to Klondike solitaire.
* In American English, it refers to the game known in Britain as "Demon"; see Canfield (solitaire).

The name Canfield also refers to several communities in the United States and one in Canada:
* Canfield, Ontario
* Canfield, Arkansas
* Canfield, Colorado
* Canfield, Ohio
* Canfield, Braxton County, West Virginia
* Canfield, Randolph County, West Virginia

The village of Little Canfield, Essex, England was birthplace of
* Benet Canfield Elizabethan writer

People

*Mary Grace Canfield
*Richard Albert Canfield - Noted Gambler


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  • Canfield — type of solitaire, 1912, from U.S. gambler J.A. Canfield (1855 1914) …   Etymology dictionary

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  • Canfield — This is an English locational surname. It originates from the Essex villages called Great Canfield and Little Canfield. It is claimed that the derivation is from the Norman village of Canville Les Deux Eglises, in the Department of Seine… …   Surnames reference

  • Canfield — biographical name Dorothy see Dorothy Canfield fisher …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • canfield — /kan feeld /, n. Cards. a game of solitaire often adapted to gambling purposes. [1910 15; named after R. A. Canfield (1855 1914), American gambler, inventor of the game] * * * …   Universalium

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