cagnotten.
/kanˈjɒt/ Money reserved from the stakes for the bank at certain gambling games (see quots.). Also attributive.
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1928 Daily Express 29 Aug. 1/5 The club has adopted the equivalent of the Cagnotte system. A member winning a sum such as twenty-five pounds at a session is assessed approximately ten shillings. If he wins fifty pounds or over he pays the club one pound.
1959 Times 24 Feb. 11/7 The bank's cut, or cagnotte, may be some hundreds of pounds.
1961 I. Fleming Thunderball xv. 156 One table of chemin de fer, whose cagnotte yields a modest five per cent.
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