monte

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A card game in which two cards are chosen from four laid out face-up and a player bets that one of the two will be matched in suit by the dealer before the other one.

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A tract more or less thickly covered with shrubby vegetation or scanty forests; a forest.

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A favorite Spanish and Spanish-American gambling-game, played with the Spanish pack of forty cards.

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In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.

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A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.

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a gambling game using playing cards, in which a dealer shows a bettor three cards face up and specifies one to be identified, and after the cards are turned face down and moved around quickly, the bettor must identify which of the three cards is the specified card. It is sometimes engaged in by dealers on the streets of a city, with bets made by passers-by.

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a game in which 3 or 4 cards are dealt faceup and players bet which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt

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a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time