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Vingt-et-un   Listen
Vingt-et-un

noun
1.
A gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21.  Synonyms: blackjack, twenty-one.





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"Vingt-et-un" Quotes from Famous Books



... there were two card-parties formed in the dining-room, at one of which there was a game of Vingt-et-un, and at the other a game of whist, at which Mrs. ——— and I lost several shillings to a Mrs. Halton and Mr. Gaskell. . . . . After finishing our games at cards, Mrs. Halton drove off in a pony-chaise to her own house; the other ladies retired, and the gentlemen sat down ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne


Words linked to "Vingt-et-un" :   card game, cards


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