Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Boston \Bos"ton\, n.
   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.

Source : WordNet®

Boston
     n : state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major
         center for banking and financial services [syn: {Hub of
         the Universe}, {Bean Town}, {Beantown}, {capital of
         Massachusetts}]