casino

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  1. noun A public room or building for gambling and other entertainment.
  2. noun A card game for two to four players in which cards on the table are matched by cards in the hand.
  3. noun A summer or country house in Italy.
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  • At a hundred and twenty million dollars, with twenty-one hundred rooms, the casino was the dawn of the true Vegas-styled entertainment complex and a precursor to things to come. —  BringingDowntheHouse
  • Decorated with Egyptian obelisks, sandstone walls, and hieroglyphic-covered tapestries, the casino was another wonder of the city: tourist-oriented but spacious enough to provide a good gambling environment. —  BringingDowntheHouse
  • From outside, the casino was a flashback to the worst of the eighties: Festooned in bright swaths of pink and electric blue, the massive complex could have made the perfect setting for a Miami-themed disco movie. —  BringingDowntheHouse
  • If the casino was an animal, then they were leeches, quietly bleeding it of the money that was its sustenance until it wobbled and fell. —  Phule's Paradise by Robert Asprin
  • The imposition of a sales tax of 10 percent in his casino was a prime example.
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  1. Italian, diminutive of casa, house, from Latin.

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  1. Italian, a house, summer-house, gaming-house, diminutive of casa, a house, from Latin casa, a cottage, hut: see casa.
 

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