Faro
[fєәrәu]
Definition
(noun.) a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
Typed by Floyd--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
Typist: Veronica
Definition
n. a game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.
Inputed by Bartholomew
Examples
- At night myself and a companion would go over to a gorgeously furnished faro-bank and get our midnight lunch. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We pass a law against race-track gambling and add to the profits from faro. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At all hours of the day and night in walking the streets, the eye was regaled, on every block near the water front, by the sight of players at faro. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We raid the faro joints, and drive gambling into the home, where poker and bridge whist are taught to children who follow their parents' example. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Louise