baccarat
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- noun
- /ˈbækəˌrɑ/
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bacará
- Many people enjoy betting on the player's hand or the banker's hand in baccarat.
- baccarat table
- play baccarat
- game of baccarat
And I, I play baccarat and Caesar's baccarat is fucking packed wall to wall with Chinese.
- And I, I play baccarat and Caesar's baccarat is fucking packed wall to wall with Chinese.
Examples
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Penny liked to play the nickel slot machines while Inge sat at a table and played baccarat or chemin de fer.
Fiction book (1993) -
We were locked in a game of baccarat in Monte Carlo.
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3 months ago in baccarat, she won a fortune from me.
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Won it playing baccarat with an Arab prince.
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It's not everyday you meet an American that plays baccarat.
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A card shoe slides across the baccarat table.
Fiction book (1995) -
You are here in Goa on holiday... and your husband is a large gentleman probably sitting... at the baccarat table.
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Baccarat is really a gambling card game used to play in the casinos.
Blog text (4) -
The online casino started with one Baccarat table in 2004, and due to its immense popularity, the casino now has 10 operational Baccarat tables.
Blog text (31) -
Back in the 1980s, the center of the casinos was the "table games" -- blackjack, roulette, baccarat, craps, poker -- games that involve some social exchange with other people -- players, dealers, croupiers -- and varying degrees of skill.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
A casino card game like baccarat where players bet to get a total close to nine
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word baccarat comes from an old Italian word, baccara, which meant 'zero' because tens and face cards count as zero in the game. So the name helps you remember that many cards are worth 'zero' and the game's goal is to get closest to nine.