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单词 mount cent
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mount centn.

Forms: 1500s–1600s mount sant, 1600s mount cent, 1600s mounte cent, 1600s mount saint.
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. In quot. 1599 translating Spanish los cientos, the name of a card game ( < los the + cientos hundred: see cent n.2), which apparently gives rise to the second element of the English word. The first element may be connected with mount v. in the sense ‘to amount’.
Obsolete.
A card game resembling piquet.
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1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 25 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. L. Let vs play at Loadam. M. It is a play of much patience... L. At mount sant [Sp. a los cientos]. M. It makes my head to be in a swoune to be alwaies counting.
1607 T. Cocks Diary 17 Apr. (1901) 4 Wonne at mounte cent 4 d and vyed ruffe.
1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iv. sig. H3v Que. Come.. here are cards... Phi... At what game will your Maiesty play? Que. At mount saint.
1609 G. Markham Famous Whore (1868) 34 Were it Mount cent, Primero, or at chesse.
1610 T. Cocks Diary 21 June (1901) 100 Lost at mountcent xij d.
a1621 F. Moore Cases Collect & Report (1663) 776 Accion sur le case..p[ur] luy disceaver al cards, al un game le mountsant.
1990 D. Parlett Oxf. Guide Card Games 55 From Dodsley's collection of Old Plays may be extracted references to Gleek, Crimp, Mountsaint, Post and Pair, [etc.].]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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