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† septleva Obs.
Also sept-et-le-va, sept and leva.
[Shortening of F. sept-et-le-va, lit. seven and the ‘va’, ‘vade’, or first stake.]
At basset, seven times the amount of the first stake.
1701Farquhar Sir H. Wildair ii. ii, Wild... Who can resist the charms of Mattadors? Lur. Ay, Sir Harry; and then the Sept le va, Quinze le Va, & Trante le Va! 1706S. Centlivre Basset-Table iv. 50, I have only won a Sept & Leva. Ibid. 53 Do you think it possible to lose a Trante & Leva, a Quinse-leva,—and a Sept-et-leva,—and never turn once. 1709Seymour Compl. Gamester (1734) 115. 1716 Pope Basset-Table 14 in [Lady M. W. Montagu] Crt. Poems 2 As You by Love, so I by Fortune cross't; In One bad Deal, Three Septleva's have lost. 1756H. Walpole Let. H.S. Conway 12 Feb., I am sorry she could not discover any wit in Mrs. Hussey's making a septleva. |