cassinon.
/kəˈsiːnəʊ/ A card game in which the ten of diamonds, called great cassino (or great cass) counts two points, and the two of spades, called little cassino (or little cass) counts one; eleven points constituting the game. Also attributive, as cassino table.
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1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 18. 143 A large party at Faro and Cassino was made..at a great house in Piccadilly.
1800 J. Austen Let. 20 Nov. (1995) 62 A whist & a casino table.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. i. 15 Lady Middleton proposed a rubber of cassino to the others. View more context for this quotation
1811 E. Nares Thinks I to Myself (1816) II. 132 Two whist, cassino, or quadrille tables will dispose of four couple..Great cass, little cass, and the spades, Ma'am.
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