单词 | faro |
释义 | faron.1 A gambling card game, in which the players bet on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > faro Pharaoh1648 faro1717 tiger1851 1717 J. Gay Epist. W. Pulteney 79 Nannette last night at tricking Pharaon play'd. 1739 Act 12 Geo. II c. 28 §1 Games of the Ace of Hearts, Pharaoh, Basset and Hazard. 1748 H. Walpole Corr. (ed. 3) II. cxc. 233 Silver-pharaoh and whist for the ladies that did not dance. 1782 T. Vaughan Fashionable Follies (new ed.) II. cclxii. 212 She..spent whole days, and even nights, at whist and pharoan. 1792 J. Wolcot Resignation in Odes Import. xii Behold, a hundred coaches at her door, Where Pharo triumphs in his mad career. 1800 Ann. Reg. 1797 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 14/2 Convicted in the penalty of 50l each, for playing at the game of faro. 1842 R. H. Barham Black Mousquetaire in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 3 He Lost large sums at faro. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxvii Preferring smoke and faro to fresh air. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as faro-player, faro-table, faro-winnings. ΚΠ 1723 S. Centlivre Artifice i. i. 14 He belongs to a Pharaoh-Table, I us'd to see him Tally sometimes. 1734 S. Johnson Harmony in Uproar 19 The Tricks of a Faro-Table, or a Bowling-Green. 1795 J. Wolcot Hair Powder 236 Let..stately Cumberland [pinch] her faro winnings. 1796 Hull Advertiser 21 May 2/4 The threatening notice taken by the Lord Chief Justice of the Ladies' Faro Tables. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. iv. 111 Mrs. Luttridge..being a great faro-player. a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 416/2 A party were at the pharo-table. C2. faro bank n. (a) a gaming-house where faro is played; (b) the banker's deposit of money against which the other players put their stakes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > faro > place where faro played faro bank1729 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > faro > banker's money faro bank1729 1729 J. Gay Polly ii. ii. 28 For some time I kept a Pharaon-Bank with success. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 187 Mr. Hay's profit is from the..farro bank. 1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis p. x [Houses] where Pharo Banks are kept. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 52 Kill time..at lansquenet and the faro bank. faro banker n. the proprietor of a faro bank. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > faro > banker, dealer, etc. faro banker1798 case keeper1835 faro dealer1856 1798 Sporting Mag. 11 7 The villany of a female Faro Banker. faro dealer n. the dealer in a game of faro. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > faro > banker, dealer, etc. faro banker1798 case keeper1835 faro dealer1856 1856 Harper's Mag. Dec. 68/2 A grim, imperturbable faro-dealer. 1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer iv. 64 Cameron..had once been a faro dealer in a gambling house. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). faron.2 A kind of beer made chiefly at Brussels and in its neighbourhood. Cf. Pharaoh n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer spruce beerc1500 March beer1535 Lubecks beer1608 zythum1608 household beer1616 bottle1622 mumc1623 old beer1626 six1631 four1633 maize beer1663 mum beer1667 vinegar beer1677 wrest-beer1689 nog1693 October1705 October beer1707 ship-beer1707 butt beer1730 starting beer1735 butt1743 peterman1767 seamen's beer1795 chang1800 treacle beer1806 stock beer1826 Iceland beer1828 East India pale ale1835 India pale ale1837 faro1847 she-oak1848 Bass1849 bitter beer1850 bock1856 treble X1856 Burton1861 nettle beer1864 honey beer1867 pivo1873 Lambic1889 steam beer1898 barley-beer1901 gueuze1926 Kriek1936 best1938 rough1946 keg1949 IPA1953 busaa1967 mbege1972 microbrew1985 microbeer1986 yeast-beer- 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxi. 266 A mug of Faro at the bench of a beer-house on the road to Laeken. 1864 Daily Tel. 17 Mar. You stop on the road to drink faro. 1865 Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 7/3 Faro and brown beer flowed almost for the asking. 1960 Spectator 25 Nov. 831 This Belgian beer..[is] called lambic or faro, and the books all say it's light and rather bitter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11717n.21847 |
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