| 单词 | raffling shop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraffling shop raffling shop n. now historical and rare an establishment where raffles are held. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > places raffling shop1691 lottery office1735 1691 R. Ames Islington-Wells 11 Some to the Raffling-shop advance, To see the strange effects of Chance. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 253 About the pumps..there are raffling shops, coffee-houses, and all other diversions. 1845 N.Y. Herald 9 Nov. 2/6 Winter has brought with it many concomitant evils, the most serious and aggravated of which are the numerous raffling shops which are brought into existence, under the shallow pretext of giving working men and mechanics chances of procuring poultry ‘very cheap’. 1903 A. M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. (1968) II. xv. 396 Lotteries flourished in the American provinces. It was a wonderful zest to shopping to do it through lottery tickets... Raffling-shops were in every city. 1951 W. W. Addison Eng. Spas 49 Hampstead's raffling-shop is said to have been set up by a lawyer as an ‘easier way of conveyancing and alienating estates from one family to another’. < as lemmas |
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