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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
baccarat
noun
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baccarat

Baccara \Bac`ca*ra"\, Baccarat \Bac`ca*rat"\, n. [F.] A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
baccarat

card game, 1848, from French baccara (19c.), which is of unknown origin. Baccarat is the name of a town in France that was noted for glass-making.

Wiktionary
baccarat

n. (context card games English) A card game with some similarities to blackjack.

WordNet
baccarat

n : a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cars that total closest to nine [syn: chemin de fer]

Wikipedia
Baccarat (card game)

Baccarat ( or ; ) is a card game played at casinos. There are three popular variants of the game: punto banco (or "North American baccarat"), baccarat chemin de fer (or "chemmy"), and baccarat banque (or "à deux tableaux"). Punto banco is strictly a game of chance, with no skill or strategy involved; each player's moves are forced by the cards the player is dealt. In baccarat chemin de fer and baccarat banque, by contrast, both players can make choices, which allows skill to play a part. Despite this, the winning odds are in favour of the bank, with a house edge no lower than around 1 percent.

Baccarat is a comparing card game played between two hands, the "player" and the "banker". Each baccarat coup has three possible outcomes: "player" (player has the higher score), "banker", and "tie".

Baccarat first appeared in 19th-century France but was preceded by similar games like Macao, Oicho-Kabu, and Gabo japgi.

Baccarat

Baccarat (; ) is a French commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Lorraine region of north-eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bachâmois or Bachâmoises.

The commune has been awarded three flowers by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.

Baccarat (company)

Baccarat Crystal is a manufacturer of fine crystal glassware located in Baccarat, France. The company owns two museums: the Musée Baccarat in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle and the Musée Baccarat in Paris on the Place des États-Unis. Groupe du Louvre is the majority shareholder of the company and is a subsidiary of the United States company Starwood Capital Group.

Baccarat (disambiguation)

Baccarat is a town in Lorraine, France. Named after it are:

  • Baccarat (company), manufacturer of crystal
    • Musée Baccarat, in the town, crystal museum
    • Musée Baccarat, Paris, crystal museum
  • Baccarat Hotels and Resorts company, owned by Starwood Capital Group
  • Baccarat (card game)

Usage examples of "baccarat".

Le Chiffre will, we are confident, endeavour on or after 15 June to make a profit at baccarat of fifty million francs on a working capital of twenty-five million.

Le Chiffre, we know, has bought the baccarat bank from the Egyptian syndicate which is running the high tables here.

They have been seen arriving in motor cars from Strasbourg or Metz, at many towns in Lorraine, at Luneville, Baccarat, and elsewhere.

Miss Campion was safely settled at the boule table with a pile of chips, and the Saint looked around and saw Mrs Nussberg emerging majestically from the baccarat room and proceeding towards a table in the lounge.

He spent night after night at his club, playing at baccarat, and could be met in the betting ring at every race meeting.

But as to Ronnie, bridge and baccarat and poker-patience are positively all that he thinks about.

There was a stage near the center of the casino, right between the baccarat and roulette tables, on which a procession of nude and nearly-nude women executed graceful and intricate dances to the music of the quartet.

Glistening Baccarat sconces lined the walls, which were covered with flocked paper.

After dinner, I made up a game of baccarat, but Prosper took no interest in it, although he was quite tipsy.

Here is a Paradise of Chance, an E-0 Wheel big as a Roundabout, Lottery Balls in Cages ever a-spin, Billiards and Baccarat, Bezique and Games whose Knaves and Queens live, over Flemish Carpets, among perfect imported Chippendale Gaming-Tables, beneath Chandeliers secretly, cunningly faceted so as to amplify the candle-light within, they might be Children playing in miniature at Men of Enterprise, whose Table is the wide World, lands and seas, and the Sums they wager too often, when the Gaming has halted at last, to be reckon'd in tears.

The odds at baccarat are the best after trente‑et‑quarante — evens except for the tiny cagnotte — but I might get a bad run against me and get cleaned out.

The odds at baccarat are the best after trente-et-quarante - evens except for the tiny cagnotte - but I might get a bad run against me and get cleaned out.

Trashcan Man stared at it in awe-the serried ranks of slot machines like soldiers standing at parade rest, beyond them the roulette and crap tables,, the marble railings enclosing the baccarat tables.

He sipped a gin-and-tonic from a nineteenth-century Baccarat glass and surveyed the expanse of azure Caribbean sea that lay beyond a profusion of brilliant iced frangipani.

But it was the way he picked up trends for specific games, for cards versus slots, for sports betting versus baccarat, new scams or new variations on old favorites, and which insurance fraud was going through Vegas like a flu.