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† mount cent Obs.
Also 6–7 mount sant, 7 mount saint, mounte cent.
[Of obscure origin. The evidence of the first quot. suggests connexion with cent2, Sp. ciento hundred; the first element may be connected with mount v. in the sense ‘to amount’.]
A card game resembling piquet.
1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., Dialogues 25, L. Let vs play at Loadam. M. It is a play of much patience... L. At mount sant [Sp. a los cientos]. M. It makes my head to be in a swoune to be alwaies counting. 1607T. Cocks Diary 17 Apr. (1901) 4 Wonne at mounte cent 4 d and vyed ruffe. 1610Ibid. 21 June 100 Lost at mountcent xij d. 1608Machin Dumb Knt. iv. H 3 b, Que. Come.., here are cards... Phi... At what game will your Maiesty play? Que. At mount saint. 1609Markham Famous Whore (1868) 34 Were it Mount cent, Primero, or at chesse. a1621Sir F. Moore Reports (1688) 776 Action sur le case..p[our] luy disceaver al cards, al un game le mountsant. |