rouge et noir

American  

[roozh ey nwahr, roozh ey nwar] / ˈruʒ eɪ ˈnwɑr, ruʒ eɪ ˈnwar /

noun

1. a gambling game using cards, played at a table marked with two red and two black diamond-shaped spots on which the players place their stakes.

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rouge et noir British  

/ ruʒ e nwar, ˈruːʒ eɪ ˈnwɑː /

noun

1. Also called: trente et quarante.  a card game in which the players put their stakes on any of two red and two black diamond-shaped spots marked on the table

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Etymology

Origin of rouge et noir

1785–95; < French: red and black

Example Sentences

The third, and inner, apartment was much larger than either of the others, and in this room there was a table for rouge et noir.

From Run to Earth A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

She gives one the pleasure of adoration in its purest and most ideal form, and she adds to this the pleasure of rouge et noir.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

All day long his imagination had been playing hazard, or rouge et noir.

From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

On this occasion the beautiful widow herself occupied a place at the rouge et noir table, and Reginald beheld enough to enlighten him as to her real character.

From Run to Earth A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

At rouge et noir, for example, when the red has won five times running, sagacious gamblers stake on the black, for they think the turn which must come at last is nearer than it was.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene