单词 | manque |
释义 | manquen. Roulette. On a roulette table: the section of the cloth covering the numbers 1 to 18. Also: a bet placed on this section. Cf. passe n.2 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > roulette > [noun] > section of cloth manque1850 passe1891 1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 348 The manque wins, when the ball enters a hole numbered eighteen, and all those under that number. 1885 Capt. Palmer Monte Carlo & Rouge et Noir 8 The space for Manque is so marked on the table, and the ball stopping in any of the compartments containing any number up to 18 makes Manque win. 1891 ‘Professor Hoffmann’ Cycl. Card & Table Games II. 626 If he places his money on Manque, he is considered to wager that the ball will fall into one of the numbers from 1 to 18 inclusive. [Note] [Manque,] so called because in this event the ball ‘fails’..to fall into a higher number than 18. 1923 L. H. Dawson Hoyle's Games Modernized ii. 279 To bet on both Passe and Noir or Rouge and Manque at the same time, two separate stakes would be required. 1953 T. King 21 Games of Chance 31 In addition to the central strip of numbers, there are outer spaces marked Passe, Manque, Pair, Impair, Noir and Rouge. 1969 J. Binstock Casino Admin. vi. 72 This [sc. roulette] is played on a table with 37 numbers from zero to 36, the so-called ‘even chance’ bets being pair and impair, passe and manque, rouge and noir. 1993 Daily Mail 7 Jan. 7 A roulette table has six even-chance possibilities: rouge and noir (red and black), even and odd numbers (pair and impair), and high and low numbers (passe and manque). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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