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▪ I. monte1|ˈmɒnteɪ|
Also monty.
[a. Sp. monte mountain; heap or stock of cards left after each player has his share.]
1. a. A Spanish and Spanish-American game of chance, played with a pack of forty-five cards. three-card monte, a game of Mexican origin, played with three cards only one of which is usually a court-card.
1824J. R. Poinsett Notes on Mexico (1825) iii. 37 We found a numerous assembly of men gambling deeply, at a game called monte. 1850B. Taylor Eldorado I. xii. 80 They are playing monte, the favorite game in California. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly Prol. ii, I thought we should find a choice hotel, with a little monty or poker afterwards. 1877Black Green Past. xiii, Five-Ace Jack received a liberal percentage from the three card-monte men who entertained these innocent folks. 1887F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 66 ‘Do you want to play monte?’ he asked. Ibid. 144 He..was eight hundred [dollars] ahead once. But he played it off at monté.
b. attrib. and Comb., as monte-banker, monte blanket, monte card, monte game, monte operator, monte table, etc.; monte-bank, a monte table; also used as the name of the game itself.
a1861T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 128 A background of mustangs, monte-banks, and lynch-law. 1939T. King 21 Games to play for Money 27 To take its [sc. Faro's] place, Monte Bank has come into being.
1855F. S. Marryat Mts. & Molehills xiv. 267, I was soon asleep, notwithstanding..the clinkings of the monté-bankers, and the noise of the crowd below.
1898H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier 78 His long and angular shadow fell across the monte blanket spread flat upon the ground.
1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 356/3 ‘Spanish Monte Cards’, 48 cards in pack, assortment of black and colors.
1899T. W. Hall Tales 276 Judge Leander Quinn was lured away from a monte game with a couple of buck Indians.
1961J. Scarne Compl. Guide to Gambling xix. 520 Countless Monte operators plied their trade on the steamboats of the Ohio and Mississippi..in the 1850s.
1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West iv. 92 We take our stand near the monte table, where a considerable crowd gathers. 1889K. Munroe Golden Days ii. 15 This influx of gold caused monte-tables, and other gambling layouts, to spring up.
2. (See monty.)
▪ II. ‖ monte2|ˈmonte|
[Sp.: lit. ‘mountain’.]
In Spanish-American countries: A more or less wooded tract; a small forest.
1856[see Montaña1]. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 406/2 The montes of Uruguay are of no commercial value.
▪ III. monte
obs. form of mount. |