gambling house

noun

1. a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gambling house¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

At 17 acres, it was the largest gambling house ever constructed, and at a cost of $1.2 billion, it was also the most expensive.

From The Daily Beast

The first real guitar I had, Mr. Cham Fields, who owned a roadhouse, gambling house, and W. C. Handy gave it to me.

From The Daily Beast

And there came news that the king was in some gambling house with a troupe of that archfiend's spies.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1785 one Levoz, a citizen of Lige, opened a new gambling-house, which he called the 'Club.'

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"The entrance to the gambling house is through the store," explained Bronson.

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One night, in a gambling-house in Chili, she quarrelled with, and stabbed a gentleman of great importance in the city.

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Those men led Edouard away; they abandoned themselves anew to the pleasures of the table and the gambling house.

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