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Definition of Baccarat
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Baccarat
1. Noun. (card games) A card game with some similarities to blackjack. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baccarat
1. a card game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baccarat
Literary usage of Baccarat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1891)
"baccarat, as an agent of demoralisation, has been so much in the air lately, ...
These clubs may be regarded as baccarat's natural and original home; ..."
2. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"baccarat, as ordinarily understood in England in 1894, comprised baccarat in both
forms," ie (1) baccarat Chemin de Fer, and (2) baccarat Banque, ..."
3. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1895)
"The defendant admitted that a game resembling baccarat called " chemin de fer "
had been played in the club, but he contended that the playing of this game ..."
4. Father Duffy's Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, of Life and Death with by Francis Patrick Duffy (1919)
"... CHAPTER IV THE baccarat SECTOR baccarat March, 1918 To speak in guide-book
fashion, baccarat is a town of 15000 people situated in the wide, ..."
5. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1892)
"... Programme—Letters by Mr. Chamberlain and Sir W. Harcourt—The baccarat
Case—Manipur—Strong Speech by Sir J. Gorst—Deputations to Lord Salisbury—Imperial ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... baccarat in the latter department being famous for its table-glass. Limoges is
the chief centre for the manufacture of porcelain, and the artistic ..."
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