Monte
['mɒntɪ] or ['mɑnti]
Definition
(noun.) a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time.
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Definition
(n.) A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.
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Definition
n. a shrubby tract a forest: a Spanish-American gambling game played with a pack of forty cards.—Three-card monte a Mexican gambling game played with three cards one usually a court-card.
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Examples
- Even if they took all the Bainsizza and Monte San Gabriele there were plenty of mountains beyond for the Austrians. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We saw the damp, dismal cells in which two of Dumas' heroes passed their confinement--heroes of Monte Cristo. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They say they have not broken through badly and that we will hold a line across the mountains from Monte Maggiore. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Monte was the game played, the place out of doors, near the window of the room occupied by the officers of our party. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At th e beginning of the sixth century, before the taking of Alexandria by the followers of Moha mmed, St. enedict had founded the monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You have to pass Monte Tamara. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The establishment upon Monte Cassino became a famous and powerful centre within the lifetime of its founder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Monte Carlo is, of all places, the one where the human bond is least close, and odd sights are the least arresting. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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