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单词 gaming house
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gaming housen.

Brit. /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ haʊs/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ ˌhaʊs/
Forms: see gaming n. and house n.1 and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gaming n., house n.1
Etymology: < gaming n. + house n.1
Now somewhat archaic.
A building or establishment where gambling games are played. Cf. gambling n. Compounds 2b.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
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1562 Proclam. Observ. Certein Statutes sig. E.iiiv Euery placard for a common gaming house, shal contein what game shalbe there vsed, and who shall play therat, or els to be voyde.
1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 251 A prodigal gallant..will set..hundreds of them [sc. pounds] flying at one afternoons sitting in a gaming-house.
1709 London Gaz. No. 4525/3 The Groom-Porter doth hereby declare, that he neither Licenses or Tolerates any Person to Game, or keep Gaming-Houses.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. xvii. 302 This gentleman has been at play at that there gaming-house over the way.
1836 F. Marryat Japhet III. l. 4 I passed the gaming house—I did pass it, but I returned and lost every shilling.
1877 J. F. Stephen Digest Criminal Law (1883) 122 The following houses are disorderly houses, that is to say: common bawdy houses, common gaming houses, common betting houses, disorderly places of entertainment.
1923 Daily Mail 12 Feb. 7 Five Chinese pleaded guilty at Liverpool Assizes to charges of running a gaming house.
2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones xi. 250 London gaming houses that banked hazard themselves..turned it into a straight-up mercantile game.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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