tombola

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"Here's the pyson at last, I says to myself; and when my turn came, I did as the others did, bowed to the sultan, feeling just like a tombola, and nearly going over; then I drank -- and what do you think it was?"

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  1. A lottery game popular in France and in the southern United States. Fancy articles are offered for prizes; a card containing several numbers is given to each person, and all the numbers on the card must be drawn in order to secure a prize. A pair of statuettes, a golden tobacco-box, a costly jewel-casket, or a pair of richly gemmed horse-pistols … went into the shop-window of the ever-obliging apothecary, to be disposed of by tombola. G. W. Cable, Grandissimes, p. 144.

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  • ST Mary Magdalene's Church, in Prudhoe, will be holding a tombola this Saturday to raise money for refurbishments and improvements in the church hall. —  HX News and Sport
  • Stalls include cakes and produce, plants, bric-a-brac, raffle and the ever popular Easter egg tombola. —  HX News and Sport
  • Coffee Morning: On Saturday, September 13 a fundraising coffee morning fete with tombola will be held in the Bield Housing Complex on South Street from —  icWestlothian
  • An International Food Court will satisfy every appetite plus tombola and raffle stalls promise gifts for all. —  AME Info Latest News
  • There will be the chance to take part in wildlife walks and canoeing, watch falconry displays and wood sculpting and buy a ticket for the tombola. —  Bike For All - The essential cycling resource.
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  1. =F. tombola, from Italian tombola, a kind of lottery, apparently from tombolare, fall, tumble: see tumble.
 

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