单词 | fan-tan |
释义 | fan-tann. A Chinese gambling game, in which a number of small coins are placed under a bowl and the players then bet as to what will be the remainder when the pile has been divided by four. Also attrib. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun] even or odd1538 love1585 Jack-in-the-box?1593 under-hat1629 pluck-penny1643 morra1659 catch-dolt1674 shuffle-cap1712 fair chance1723 E O1751 teetotum1753 rondo1821 cut-throat1823 hop-my-fool1824 odds and evens1841 spin-'em-round1851 halfpenny under the hat1853 racehorses1853 fan-tan1878 tan1883 pakapoo1886 legality1888 petits chevaux1891 pai gow1906 boule1911 put and take1921 1878 A. Brassey Voy. Sunbeam xxiii. 401 A few natives playing at fan-tan. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 May 2/1 At their fan-tan tables lads of ten..years of age may be seen gambling away their pence. 1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Sept. 15/4 The home of fantan..is the Portuguese colony of Macao. Draft additions 1993 b. A card-game in which a seven is led and sequences developed on this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1923 L. H. Dawson Hoyle's Games Modernized 218 Fan Tan, the simplest game of the ‘Pope Joan’, or ‘Stops’ family... The full pack of fifty-two cards is used, and any number of players can take part. 1975 Way to Play 312/4 Card dominoes. This game of luck and skill is also called sevens, parliament, and fan tan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2012). < n.1878 |
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