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Chemin de fer   Listen
Chemin de fer

noun
1.
A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine.  Synonym: baccarat.






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"Chemin de fer" Quotes from Famous Books



... chemises en batiste fine du Prince de BALEINES. Elle priait les aristos du Jockey Club de donner leurs plastrons a d'autres. Les clients qu'elle preferait etaient les porte-faix, les forts de la halle, les chauffeurs du chemin de fer. C'etait en allant chercher le linge de ces derniers qu'elle entrait sans le savoir dans le Dedale de cette voie ferree qui enlace et ecrase les etres vivants comme les grandes roues des locomotives ecrasent la poussiere ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 100. Feb. 28, 1891 • Various

... in suchlike days Wooing Chloe. Now, alas, You've no taste for simple ways, Much prefer green baize to grass. Fled your interest in swains; Nothing for my sighs you care; All your joy is little trains, Oddly dubbed "chemin de fer." ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 • Various



Words linked to "Chemin de fer" :   cards, baccarat, card game



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