Boston

·noun A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each;

— said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

Boston, Thomas
(1677-1732) Scottish divine, was successively schoolmaster at Glencairn, and minister of Simprin in...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin