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croupier|ˈkruːpɪə(r), kruːˈpɪə(r)|
Also 8 crouper, croupee, crowpee.
[a. Fr. croupier, orig. one who rides behind on the croup; hence, one who goes halves with a player at cards or dice and stands behind him to assist him, also he who stands behind the banker to assist at the game of basset, and now at a gaming table as in sense 2.]
†1. A second standing behind a gamester to back him up and help him. Obs.
1707Wycherley Let. 11 Nov. in Pope's Letters, Since I have such a Croupier or Second to stand by me as Mr. Pope.
2. He who rakes in the money at a gaming-table.
1731Daily Jrnl. 9 Jan. (in D'Israeli Cur. Lit., Gaming), Two Crowpees, who watch the cards, and gather the money for the bank. 1855Thackeray Newcomes I. 301 The gambling tables and the cadaverous croupiers and chinking gold. 1884May Crommelin Brown-Eyes xii. 114 All gone! swept from the green cloth by the coupier's inexorable rake.
3. One who sits as assistant chairman at the lower end of the table at a public dinner.
1785Craig in Lounger No. 26 §10 He is no longer Croupier at Lord E.'s, his place there being filled up by Tom Toastwell. 1827T. Hamilton C. Thornton (1845) 76 The honours of the table were performed by my uncle, by whose orders I acted as croupier. Ibid. 77 The important office of vice-president or croupier. 1849Thackeray Pendennis xvi, Hicks officiated as croupier on the occasion. |