单词 | vingt-et-un |
释义 | vingt-et-unvingt-unn. A round game of cards in which the object is to make the number twenty-one or as near this as possible without exceeding it, by counting the pips on the cards, court-cards counting as ten, the ace one or eleven as the holder chooses. (Cf. Van John n.) Also applied to a game at dominoes: see stone n. 13. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > vingt-et-un, etc. vingt-et-un1772 macao1778 twenty-one1790 macco1809 Van John1853 black jack1899 pontoon1917 vingty1936 α. β. 1781 Westm. Mag. 9 604 Give the Beau-monde impertinent advice, Proscribe Vingt-une! prohibit box and dice!1790 A. C. Bower Diaries & Corr. (1903) 109 I was sat down with every Miss in Winchester to play Vingt une.a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 358 I have played nothing but Vingt-un of late.1868 G. F. Pardon Card Player 69 Vingt-un may be played by two or more players.1772 Duchess of Northumberland Diary 7 June (1926) 186 We play'd..at Vingt et un till supper Time. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. ii. 41 This passenger is reported to have lost fourteen pounds at Vingt-et-un..yesterday. 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green xi. 102 It..was a very different thing to playing vingt-et-un at home. 1872 E. Braddon Life in India viii. 338 Happy gamblers, who look upon the scientific game much in the same way as they do vingt-et-un. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1772 |
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