trente et quarante
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of trente et quarante
Borrowed into English from French around 1665–75
Example Sentences
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After two hours devoted to the impassive scrutiny of a spinning roulette wheel and the cards in another game called trente et quarante, the two departed.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were tables for both roulette and trente et quarante, the playing beginning each day at eleven in the morning and continuing without intermission until eleven at night.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Roulette and trente et quarante bored him now, though the great game in Wall Street still had power over his nerves, when he was in the thick of it.
From The Guests Of Hercules by Bracker, M. Leone
Baccarat's a safer game than roulette or trente et quarante, I begin to think, and I could adapt the system——" "Never mind the system now!
From The Guests Of Hercules by Bracker, M. Leone
Her hand carelessly pushed forward a column of twelve rectangular chips, with an extra oval one: twelve thousand five hundred francs, the maximum amount that could be risked in "trente et quarante."
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente
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