单词 | lotto |
释义 | lotton.1 1. Originally: a game of chance in which numbers are drawn at random and players place counters on corresponding numbers on cards, the winner being the first to cover a row or other required pattern of numbers; now usually called bingo (bingo n.2). Now chiefly: any of various educational games for children in which cards are matched with numbers, words, pictures, etc., on a board. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > bingo or lotto > [noun] lotto1778 keno1814 house1900 housey-housey1916 bingo1936 hoy1965 1778 J. Warner Let. 28 Nov. in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 353 I wonder how you could endure loto. 1789 E. Wynne Jrnl. 6 Sept. in A. Fremantle Wynne Diaries (1952) i. 4 We played at mouche..and at Lotto. 1819 H. Busk Banquet 33 Or bid enlivening loto for a while, Or cogitative chess, the eve beguile. 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney II. 121 Others diverted themselves at the more interesting game of loto. 1894 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 246 The children played draughts, bagatelle, lotto, or tiddlywinks. 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. 77 The toiling infants under age are found at the game of loto. 1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang ii. v. 89 Indoor games like cards, dominoes..and Lotto are played in the hang-out, particularly in bad weather. 1941 Life 11 Aug. 21/1 (caption) Children..play Lotto, with picture on one side of card, name for it on other. 1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes xii. 150 Then there's bingo, better known to people who travel in ships as housey-housey and to people two centuries ago as lotto. 2000 Scotsman (Nexis) 13 Dec. 13 The work books are backed up by flash cards, games, lotto, songs and quizzes each geared to consolidate what had been taught at earlier stages. 2. A lottery; esp. (the name of) any of various state lotteries.Originally with reference to the lottery of Genoa. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] lottery1567 rifling1569 raffle1734 lotto1787 draw1839 roulette1861 swindle1868 shake1877 shackle1881 1787 P. H. Maty tr. J. K. Riesbeck Trav. Germany III. lxv. 248 The lotto of Genoa [Ger. das Lotto di Genua], which, though decorated with a smooth and splendid name, is in fact no more than a Pharaoh table. 1796 J. Owen Trav. Europe II. cxvii. 158 The subject of the lotto or lottery..which is amongst Italians the prevailing topic of interest and conversation. 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1535 To the honour of the Hanoverian government, no Lotto was ever introduced into it, though many foreigners offered large sums for permission to cheat the people in this manner. 1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 774/2 The love for gambling is a national characteristic; and..Lotto—that is, the official weekly lottery—is the most dangerous of the forms it takes. 1886 Nation 16 Sept. 232/2 As to public opinion on the subject among the Austrians themselves, the State Lotto is almost universally condemned. 1921 Jrnl. Switchmen's Union May 222/1 Our..lotto was a success and as a result quite a sum of money was added to our treasury, thanks to..Sister Hussey for her hard work in selling tickets. 1988 Sunday News (Auckland) 3 Apr. 11 Soon there'll be something worse than reading about some tinny person who's just won Lotto. 2005 Metro (Toronto) 18 Jan. 9/1 Let's say you're 25 and spend $4 a week on the lotto. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1779 J. Warner Let. 3 Jan. in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 381 Lord Fitzwilliam..received your loto-box. 1857 S. Martin in Lect. delivered before Young Men's Christian Assoc. 112 What do the people bring, in order to get the much-desired lotto-ticket? 1942 Billboard 9 May 38/1 (advt.) All Bingo and Lotto sets are complete with wood markers, tally and direction sheet. 1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 119 You stare at the receiver, speechless, like the lotto winner on the television ad. 2000 Tuam (County Galway) Herald & Western Advertiser 8 July 18/2 The lotto jackpot survived another weekend last Saturday when the drawn numbers..provided no winner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Lotton.2 I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Designating hand-knotted Turkish (Ushak) rugs and carpets of a kind depicted in paintings by Lorenzo Lotto, characterized by an arabesque pattern, typically in yellow on a red ground. Cf. Ushak n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [adjective] > covered with a carpet > type of carpet ingrain1836 thick-piled1853 Yarkand1880 Tekke1900 washed1911 Transylvanian1915 Herati1931 Lotto1931 Seljuk1931 shag pile1946 tufted1960 1931 A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets vi. 147 Field color of the Lotto rugs is scarlet, the dominant pattern yellow. 1983 J. Mills Carpets in Paintings 28 Another type of Ushak rug..is the ‘arabesque Ushak’ or ‘Lotto’ rug, the latter name arising from the appearance of one in the Family Group of 1547 by Lorenzo Lotto as well as another painting by the same artist, the Sant' Antonino Elemosinario in Venice. 2001 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Style West section) 1 (caption) This Arabesque rug, a so-called Lotto rug, dates from the late 19th or early 20th century. II. Simple uses. 2. A Lotto rug or carpet. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > Oriental > Turkish > specific Lotto1944 1944 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 2 217/1 One variety has a geometrical design.., another has an angular arabesque pattern in yellow on a red ground. Rugs of the latter type are occasionally called ‘Lottos’ as they also appear in the paintings of Lorenzo Lotto. 1970 M. H. Beattie & H. Herzog tr. K. Erdmann Seven Hundred Years Oriental Carpets 118/2 I noticed no less than fifty-one carpets and fragments, amongst which were..two Bird carpets, four Lottos, prayer rugs of good quality, [etc.]. 2014 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 8 May 15 Among them [sc. antique oriental rugs] was what was catalogued as a 17th century Lotto from Ottoman Turkey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11778n.21931 |
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