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单词 faro
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faron.1

Brit. /ˈfɑːrəʊ/, /ˈfɛːrəʊ/, U.S. /ˈfɛroʊ/
Forms: 1700s–1800s pharaoh, irregular pharoah, pharo, (1700s pharaon, farro), 1700s– faro.
Etymology: < Pharaoh n., after French pharaon, Italian faraone. Why the name was given is not clear; some modern dictionaries assert that one of the cards used in the game formerly bore the picture of Pharaoh.
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.
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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.
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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

Brit. /ˈfɑːrəʊ/, U.S. /ˈfɑroʊ/
Etymology: < French faro.
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).
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