Trente-et-quarante (Noun)
Meaning
A card game in which two rows of cards are dealt and players can bet on the color of the cards or on which row will have a count nearer some number.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- Trente-et-quarante was one of the games James Bond favored during his European jaunts, with its complicated bets and probabilities suiting his taste for sophisticated thrills.
- To entice tourists to gamble at its seaside casinos, Nice also added tables featuring less-studied but nevertheless picturesque diversions, like Trente-et-quarante and Sic bo.
- Inside Monaco's picturesque Grand Casino de Monte Carlo the throng turned a tenebrous haze above three closely-clustered Treinte-et-Quarante green felts set well above elegant cane-finger seats lined each rim brightly fleur-and.
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