croupier

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To them heat and cold, the dog-star or twenty degrees below zero, make no difference while the croupier is there, with his rouleaux before him, capable of turning up the card.

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  1. noun An attendant at a gaming table who collects and pays bets.

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  • The game begins with the croupier, the roulette game's dealer.
  • His relaxation is provisional, like a cat's; his eyes watch the photographer as they would watch the dealer or the croupier, alert for a hint of sleight of hand. —  The Online Photographer
  • Again that little question and answer went on between her and the croupier, and on this occasion the money was piled up on the compartment--a heap of gold which made envious the hearts of many who stood around there. —  Can You Forgive Her?
  • Anyway I'd tried my luck on Bob La Touche's long bygone dream Several pairs of eyes began to regard me with interest: and the croupier, as he pushed my spoil across, spared me a glance inscrutable but scrutinising. —  Foe-Farrell
  • And all these thoughts pass through he head while the croupier is crying, "_Faites votre jeu, Messieurs, faites votre jeu!_" and in, and on she goes again And while she is intent on making Monsieur Horace's fortune, Monsieur Horace himself, not five hundred yards off, is walking up and down the Place Royale, listening to the band, and troubling his head not at all about fortune-making, but very much about Madelon. —  My Little Lady
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  1. French, one who rides behind another on a horse (obsolete), croupier, from croupe, rump, croup, from Old French; see croup2.

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  1. French croupier, a partner or assistant at a gaming-table, from French croupe, the rump or hinder part (the principal taking the croupier, as it were, behind him).
 

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