1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum App. 114 Parlieu,..the player puts $5 on the table, and it wins; instead of lifting it, he lets the original sum lie—that is called a par lieu.]

1904 Washington Post 14 Aug. (Sporting section) 4/4 I figured with a pencil on the margin of the newspaper and found that at the track odds the parlay paid 14 to 1.

1904 in N.E.D. at Parley v.² In faro, and in rouge-et-noir, one lays a bet and, winning, leaves it on the table once more only.

1927 National Turf Digest (U.S.) Jan. 19/1 From the standpoint of the bookmaker..no money coming from a winning horse can be ‘iffed’ to a parlay on that same horse and another.

1932 D. Runyon in Collier's 26 Mar. 40/2 He has a dispute with Sorrowful about a parlay on the races the day before.

1946 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Apr. 26/4 A $2 parlay would have paid $10,906.70.

1996 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 3 Nov. 130 The Umina TAB has sold a winning parlay ticket worth $233,000.

2002 Cigar Aficionado Jan. 84/2 Among the worst are parlays, in which the sports book allow bettors to wager on several teams that all need to win for the gamble to pay off.

1828 Constitutional Whig (Richmond, Va.) 20 Feb. 1/3 As well sir might you ask the adventurer at Faro,..who paralees I say, stakes, winnings, & all, upon a single card, why he does not uniformly double his stake.

1890 J. P. Quinn Fools of Fortune ii. ii. 194 Almost all [faro] bankers will allow a player to ‘parlee’ as the percentage is largely in favor of the bank.

1895 How to make Money on Small Capital 63 Were he, however, to what is termed ‘parley’ his money—that is to say, if..he put his $5 on his choice on the first race, and, if the horse should win, put all the winnings and his original $5 on the next race, and so on.

1903 G. Ade People you Know 110 He wanted to parlee a $2 Silver Certificate and bring home enough to pay the National Debt.

1985 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 14 Aug. He..made a swing around the parlors, betting on himself. ‘I parlayed the bet to both the men's doubles and mixed doubles,’ he said.

1991 L. Sante Low Life ii. iv. 159 A ‘shoe string’ involved parlaying a small bankroll into big winnings.

1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 268 He got in with the Rise in Industrials... He crowded his Luck and Parleed his Bets. Things came his way.

1947 Life 20 Jan. 89/2 Only 25 years ago trucking firms consisted of a few men with strong backs and iron nerves who parlayed their savings into creaky trucks and did their bookkeeping on backs of envelopes.

1952 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Oct. 11/2 She would like to parlay an original ‘People's Union’ fund of $100 into lots more and start in motion her mailing plan for errant politicians.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Sept. 1131/3 Parlaying his genuine physical tragedy, by unspoken comparison, into a certificate of literary genius.

1985 Financial Times (Nexis) 19 Apr. i. 4 Sr Jordan has parleyed the property's $8m debt into current assets of more than $30m.

2002 New Internationalist Aug. 31/1 He [sc. Kissinger] is fêted in the salons of London and Los Angeles and has parlayed his statesmanship shtick into a nice little earner.