| 单词 | gaming establishment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgaming establishment b. In designations for a building, establishment, etc., where gaming takes place, as gaming establishment, gaming place, etc. Cf. gaming house n. ΚΠ 1561 Coll. Substaunce Certayne Necessarye Statutes Euery placarde for a common gaming house, shall conteyne what game shalbe there vsed. 1570 A. Golding tr. D. Chytræus Postil x. 73 Among the Greekes, in their gaming places there were fyue kynds of exercises most auncient. ?1575 Articles enquired Dioces of Winchester sig. B.iiv Whether Innes, Tauernes, victayling and typling houses or gamyng places. 1718 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 124 We sent to enquire lately about the Gaming-Room at Hampstead. 1806 J. Pinkerton tr. Regulations Lit. Soc. Antwerp in Recoll. Paris 1802–5 II. xxx. 469 It shall not be permitted to take eatables, or drink beer or wine in the reading-room, billiard-room, or gaming-room. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 254 That..a censor be appointed..to go now and then to the billiard-tables, and to the other gaming-places. 1899 Sandusky (Ohio) Star 23 Sept. 2/3 None of the paraphernalia of an ordinary gaming establishment. 1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xvi. 187 Technically, any citizen of good repute who pays the license fee may operate any kind of gambling device from a jitney one-armed bandit up to a roulette wheel in a gilded gaming casino. 1993 S. Kuriscak Casino Talk 47 Scam. A method of cheating, extorting or embezzling a gaming opponent or a gaming establishment. < as lemmas |
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