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Baccarat   /bˌɑkərˈɑ/   Listen
Baccarat

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: chemin de fer.






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"Baccarat" Quotes from Famous Books



... child, there are two kinds of play here—as there are, indeed, at almost every Casino in France. There is this game, which is, as I say, a child's game—a game at which you can make or lose a few francs; and then there is Baccarat!" ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... like one black corridor than another black corridor. Doubt seized me. Suppose I should suddenly find myself in the baccarat room! But that was unjust to King Hiram. Barred too long from the dear presence, the good beast was taking me exactly where I ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit

... had been driven back to where we saw it from the hill of Leomont. But in that three weeks a hell of cruelty, in addition to all the normal sufferings of war, had been let loose on the villages of Lorraine; on Nomeny to the north of Nancy, on Badonviller, Baccarat, and Gerbeviller to the south. The Bavarian troops, whose record is among the worst in the war, got terribly out of hand, especially when the tide turned against them; and if there is one criminal who, if he is still living, will deserve and, I hope, get an impartial ...
— Towards The Goal • Mrs. Humphry Ward



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