gay-pranked

Updated: January 13, 2026

And as for old Charles the Fifth, again, the gay-pranked, coloured suits of cards were invented, to while away his dotage, even so, doubtless, must these pretty little signals of blue and red spotted bunting have been devised to cheer the old age of all Commodores.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War