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E O
A game of chance, in which the appropriation of the stakes is determined by the falling of a ball into one of several niches marked E or O respectively. Also attrib.
1750Coventry Pompey Lit. i. xv. (1785) 36/2 For the sake of playing at E O. 1801M. Edgeworth Belinda III. xxv. 53 He likes the lady's EO table better than the lady. 1827Hone Every-Day Bk. II. 112 The profits gained by E O Tables, Rouge et Noir, etc. |