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/pas/, U.S. /pæs/, /pɑs/ Roulette.
On a roulette table: the section of the cloth covering the numbers 19 to 36. Also: a bet placed on this section. Cf. manque n.
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1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 348 The other chances are also designated on the green cloth..,‘le pair, le passe, et le noir’.]
1891 ‘Professor Hoffmann’ Cycl. Card & Table Games ii. 627 Passe is so called because the ball ‘passes’ that number.
1923 L. H. Dawson Hoyle's Games Modernized ii. 279 To bet on both Passe and Noir or Rouge and Manque at the same time, two separate stakes would be required.
1953 T. King 21 Games of Chance 31 In addition to the central strip of numbers, there are outer spaces marked Passe, Manque, Pair, Impair, Noir and Rouge.
1991 J. Kentish tr. F. Dostoevsky Gambler x, in Notes from Underground & Gambler (1999) 200 I explained to Grandmother..the many different combinations, red and black, even and odd, manque and passe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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