Pope Julius

English + (card game) Alternative forms en Pope Julio Pope July Etymology en. Presumably named after Pope Julius II, the Warrior Pope. Proper noun en obsolete A sixteenth-century gambling card game about which little is known. en 1525 w:John Skelton http://books.google.com/books?id=H1g1AAAAMAAJ Speke, Parrot Of Pope Julius cardys he ys chefe cardynall. en November 30, 1532 Privy Purse Expences of King Henry VIII, 30 Novembre 1532 Item the laste day delived unto the kings grace whiche his grace lost at pope July game wt my lady marquess and m Weston xvj cor en c. 1596 Sir John Harington A Treatise on Playe Nugae antiquae 1804 Pope Julio (if I fail not in the name, and sure I am that there is a game of the cards after his name) was a great and wary player, a great vertue in a man of his profession en Card games Gambling en eponyms