Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gambling-house.

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Examples

  • I pass a gambling-hell; take the money and go without me.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • But we might say the same of the gambling-hell, of the Law Court, of the lottery office, of the brothel.

    Le Colonel Chabert 2007

  • But we might say the same of the gambling-hell, of the Law Court, of the lottery office, of the brothel.

    Le Colonel Chabert 2007

  • By various quirks of fate I've landed up as an Indian butler, a Crown Prince, a cottonfield slave-driver, a gambling-hell proprietor, and God knows what besides - all occupations from which I'd have run a mile if I'd been able.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • Almost every other structure, either tent, cabin, or more pretentious framed house, was either a saloon or gambling-hell, or both combined.

    Wild Bill's Last Trail Ned Buntline

  • He had left it with various native chiefs, with Arabs, with a gambling-hell keeper in Pondicherry, with his various friends in short, and even with his enemies.

    The Rover 1923

  • The American side was bright and clean, orderly and self-respecting, but only a hundred feet away, unkempt, dusty, with adobe buildings and a notorious gambling-hell in plain view, was Mexico itself -- leisurely, improvident, not overscrupulous Mexico.

    Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • When one has seen Spring's blossom fall in London, and Summer appear and ripen and decay, as it does early in cities, and one is in London still, then, at some moment or another, the country places lift their flowery heads and call to one with an urgent, masterful clearness, upland behind upland in the twilight like to some heavenly choir arising rank on rank to call a drunkard from his gambling-hell.

    A Dreamer's Tales Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • The criminal and the sensualist leave the church for the gambling-hell and the brothel, and fill the slums of Chicago and Baltimore; the better classes segregate themselves from the group-life of both white and black, and form an aristocracy, cultured but pessimistic, whose bitter criticism stings while it points out no way of escape.

    The Souls of Black Folk 1915

  • And here is a land where, in the higher walks of life, in all the higher striving for the good and noble and true, the color-line comes to separate natural friends and coworkers; while at the bottom of the social group, in the saloon, the gambling-hell, and the brothel, that same line wavers and disappears.

    The Souls of Black Folk 1915

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