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vingt-et-un - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A popular game at cards, played by any number of persons with the full pack.
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noun The card game pontoon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, twenty-one : vingt , twenty + et , and + un , one.]
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From French vingt-et-un ‘twenty-one’.
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Examples
If dating was vingt-et-un , I'd always, invariably, get a crap hand like thirteen or fourteen, go for another card and get a king...
Archive 2008-03-01 juliette 2008
Il y avait vingt-et-un ans que j'étais en purgatoire, oublié de ma parenté et de mes amis...
Les Anges et les Âmes du Purgatoire de Brantigny........................ 2008
The Moslems do indulge in opium and the Alfurus in sagwire*, but gambling is restricted to the Rajah and the headmen—strangely enough, their favorite game is vingt-et-un . my bold emphasis
Archive 2008-08-01 tellurian 2008
If dating was vingt-et-un , I'd always, invariably, get a crap hand like thirteen or fourteen, go for another card and get a king...
crap date alert juliette 2008
Il y avait vingt-et-un ans que j'étais en purgatoire, oublié de ma parenté et de mes amis...
Archive 2008-10-19 de Brantigny........................ 2008
The Moslems do indulge in opium and the Alfurus in sagwire*, but gambling is restricted to the Rajah and the headmen—strangely enough, their favorite game is vingt-et-un . my bold emphasis
North Coast Culture tellurian 2008
In the salon, the women were playing at vingt-et-un , kept by Nathan, the celebrated author.
A Start in Life 2007
Or leaning over the green baize card table, watching while she and Isolde played vingt-et-un .
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
After admiring the splendors of the apartment and the beautiful women there displayed, who had all outdone each other in their dress for this occasion, Oscar was taken by the hand and led by Florentine to a vingt-et-un table.
A Start in Life 2007
They had also come to invite her to play vingt-et-un one evening at Mrs. Merriman's.
The Awakening 2000
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