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Tombola

noun
1.
A lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.





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"Tombola" Quotes from Famous Books



... Christ. How have you the poor with you? The back of their garret, the roof of their hovel, touches the wall of your palace, and the wall is thick. You have dissipations, spectacles, diversions that you call charities; you have a tombola for a famine, you have a dramatic performance for a flood, you have a concert for a fire, you have a fancy fair for a leprosy. Do you never think how horrible it is, that mockery of woe? Do you ever wonder at revolutions? Why do you not say honestly that you care nothing? You do care nothing. The ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida


Words linked to "Tombola" :   United Kingdom, drawing, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, UK, lottery, U.K.


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