单词 | gaming house |
释义 | gaming housen. Now somewhat archaic. A building or establishment where gambling games are played. Cf. gambling n. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling dicing-house1549 carding house1550 gaming house1562 dicing-chamber1571 tabling house1576 game house?1577 macaroni1771 gambling house1772 gambling school1773 gambling club1774 spill-house1778 gambling hall?1781 gambling den1792 gambling booth1804 hell1812 gambling hell1818 Crockford1827 silver hell1835 deadfall1837 casino1851 house1855 tripot1864 skin house1871 bucket-shop1875 gambling joint1885 salle1886 tabling den1886 spoofery1895 salle de jeu1901 strong joint1914 kitchen1924 salle privée1930 spieler1931 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). < n.1562 |
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