| 单词 | chouette |
| 释义 | chouette /shooh et"/, n. a variation of a two-handed game, as backgammon, allowing the participation of three or more persons, in which one player accepts the bets of all the others on the outcome of a game between that player and one other active player, who is permitted to receive advice from the nonplayers. [1885-90; < F, from the phrase faire la chouette to play alone against a group of opponents (in billiards, etc.), lit., to play the barn owl, perh. alluding to the owl's watchful look] |
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