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cassino
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cassino \Cas*si"no\, n. [It. casino a small house, a gaming house. See casino.] A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.
Great cassino, the ten of diamonds.
Little cassino, the two of spades.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of casino nodot=yes English) (Italian card game)
WordNet
n. a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand [syn: casino]
Wikipedia
Cassino is a comune in the province of Frosinone, Italy, at the southern end of the region of Lazio.
Cassino is located at the foot of Monte Cairo near the confluence of the Gari and Liri rivers. The city is best known as the site of the Abbey of Montecassino and the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II, which resulted in huge Allied and German casualties as well as the near total destruction of the town itself. Today, Cassino is also home to the University of Cassino and a Fiat-Chrysler automotive plant.
Cassino has a population of 35,860 , making it the second largest town in the province.
Cassino, also known as Casino, is an Italian fishing card game for two, three, four (possibly in two partnerships), or even theoretically five players. It is the only one to have penetrated the English-speaking world, via Italian immigrants to America. First recorded in 1797, it seems to have been heavily elaborated in 19th-century American practice. It is mostly played by two with a standard deck of playing cards, the object of the game being to score 21 points by fishing up cards displayed on the table. It is very similar to and probably descended from the Italian game Scopa.
Cassino is a folk band from Huntsville, Alabama, created from the remnants of the band Northstar.
In April 2005, Cassino was birthed from the remnants of the two principal songwriters of the Alabama rock group Northstar – an inevitably organic genesis that came to light through a creative bond that existed for numerous years between childhood friends Nick Torres and Tyler Odom. They began recording their first album in 2006 with Nashville-based producer–drummer Craig Krampf, known for his work with artists including Dolly Parton, Alabama, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Perry and Melissa Etheridge. While the record doesn't have a specifically Nashville sound, the city did become prevalent in the making of their debut record Sounds of Salvation, both as a new environment to inspire songwriting, and in the cast of characters brought in by Krampf. “Salvation” was soon blessed by the contributions of E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent and saxophonist Jim Horn. Released independently on March 29, 2007, Sounds of Salvation is the fruit of this blending of various states and sounds.
After touring the U.S. in support of the album, Cassino settled down and started working on another full-length record in the beginning of 2008. Odom exited the process (he now plays with the group Destry), and Torres teamed up to write primarily with Alabama native and long-time friend Edward Puckett. Puckett filled in on bass for the earlier Cassino tours, and through constant exposure, they found that their similar tastes and different styles complemented each other well. They set up shop in a small apartment, and wrote and recorded for most of 2008. The city of Nashville this time found its way into the recording process through the contributions of friends and session/touring musicians Kevin Arrowsmith (fiddle, banjo, mandolin), Tripper Ryder (bass) and Craig Krampf (drums, percussion). This newest endeavor became Kingprince.
It was released digitally in December 2009, and was released physically in January 2010
Nick Torres and Ed Puckett have gone back into the studio to record a new album recorded and released in the form of two, six song EPs. The first half of the album will be titled Bottlenecker and is scheduled to be released in the Spring of 2016. Upon the digital release they will get right back into the studio and start tracking the second half of the record.
Cassino is a comune in the Province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy.
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Usage examples of "cassino".
As Lewey Cassino, Agent X might learn much of the scheme behind what the newspapers called the white-cross killings.
As Lewey Cassino, he would be on the inside of a murder machine that was rolling on and on like a juggernaut, killing without apparent motive.
His impersonation of Lewey Cassino had passed Squid Murphy's careful scrutiny.
If he discovered the fact that the man on the bed was not Lewey Cassino, he would know what to do.
It was only a matter of seconds before the roof would be swarming with federal agents, any one of whom would have found a fine feather for his cap if he could bring back Lewey Cassino dead.
Still he saw the man he supposed to be Cassino covering the roof like a rabbit.
Either the supposed Cassino would fall three stories to the ground below, or lose his nerve in the last minute.
He must have decided that if a rat like Lewey Cassino could make such a jump, he, too, could make it.
He, and he alone, knew that Lewey Cassino was dead, lying in some one's coal cellar.
So far, the impersonation of Lewey Cassino had resulted only in constant trouble for him.
She had waited just around the corner in her coupé, and had successfully followed Sally and the supposed Lewey Cassino to the hideout.
The present obstacle is the Gustav Line, anchored at Monte Cassino, which Field Marshal Albert Kendring is defending with tenacity.
The town of Cassino is in ruins, as is the great Monastery that towers above it, but the German line holds.
There he had seen what was on display of the 1400 great patristic and historical codices, marvelled at the vast library, the treasures, the evidence of long custodianship of Western culture, gained some understanding of what the Benedictine Rule had meant in bringing discipline to intellectual life, sensed the reluctance of the monks of the Middle Age to destroy Greek manuscripts which they did not comprehend and suspected of intellectual enormity -- had learned indeed what could be learned from guidebooks and guides who were talking to tourists who could not be expected to understand or sympathize with much of what Monte Cassino had meant in creating the North American life of which they were proud, but unthinking, partakers.
What he had seen had seized his imagination sufficiently to keep him in the town of Cassino for several days, in order to learn more.