单词 | paroli |
释义 | parolin. Cards (esp. Faro). A cumulative bet in which the sum originally staked and the money won are left as a further stake; the gambling of double the sum that was previously staked. Also figurative. Cf. parlay n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > bidding or staking vie1533 revie1591 vieing1591 revying1610 paroli1688 raise1821 bid1880 bidding1880 sweetening1896 parlay1904 re-raise1910 call1968 1688 T. D'Urfey Fool's Preferment i. i. 9 [Basset is] the most Courtly, the most Grand, the most Graceful Game. And has the finest Terms in't that e'er were heard: As thus now! First, there's the Fasse, then the Alpieu, or Paroli. 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair ii. i. 15 I can dance a Minuet,..play at Picket, or make a Paroli, with any Wildair in Christendome. 1762 H. Walpole Let. 20 Dec. in Corr. (1941) X. 50 My friendship goes to sleep like a paroli at pharoah, and does not wake again, till their deal is over. 1794 Sporting Mag. 4 43 That no parolis stand which are lost, and should retire. 1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. x, in Fraser's Mag. May 552/1 Four crowned heads looked on at the game, and an imperial princess, when I turned up the ace of hearts and made Paroli, burst into tears. 1948 World Politics 1 100 To the uninitiated it was held up as a formula of seeming justice..one necessary to offer paroli to an immoderate conqueror, to demonstrate one's own moderation. 1991 L. Sante Low Life ii. iv. 157 The player could achieve a disadvantage only through his own efforts, and then by playing a ‘running limit’ or ‘going paroli’..that is to say, running up winnings, consolidating them, and then risking the whole sum on one turn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † paroliv. Cards. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To gamble the sum originally staked together with the money won on a bet. Cf. parlay v. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > play games of chance [verb (intransitive)] > stake > type of stake to play high1640 butter1671 set up one's rest1680 to play low1735 paroli1835 to go one's pile1836 to go nap1894 parlay1895 double up1940 1835 Hoyle's Games 61 When a punter gains, he may either take his money or paroli..should he again prove successful, he can paroli for quinze and le va. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1688v.1835 |
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