roulette

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The stake on the table was of a different substance, and our roulette was the revolving mind, but we sat round the green board as intently as the grim gamblers at Monte Carlo.

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  1. noun A gambling game in which the players bet on which slot of a rotating disk a small ball will come to rest in.
  2. noun A small toothed disk of tempered steel attached to a handle and used to make rows of dots, slits, or perforations, as in engraving or on a sheet of postage stamps.
  3. noun Any of the short consecutive incisions made between individual stamps in a sheet for easy separation.
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  • The 0 compartment and the 00 compartment in American roulette are the main elements that grant the house an edge in the gambling game.
  • The stake on the table was of a different substance, and our roulette was the revolving mind, but we sat round the green board as intently as the grim gamblers at Monte Carlo. —  Embarrassments
  • There were forty tables running--roulette, blackjack, craps, stud poker--and round them men crowded three to five deep. —  The Desert Fiddler
  • That night I thought I'd have a go at the wheel--roulette, you know. —  The Lilac Girl
  • The word roulette means 'small wheel' in French. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. French, from Old French ruelete, feminine diminutive of ruele, diminutive of roue, wheel, from Latin rota; see ret- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French roulette, a little wheel, a caster, etc., also a game so called, feminine diminutive of Old French roule, a wheel, a roll, etc.: see roll.
  2. roulette, n.
 

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