Crossword clues for chemin de fer
chemin de fer
Wiktionary
n. A card game, a variation of baccarat.
WordNet
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: baccarat]
Wikipedia
Chemin de fer is a French phrase meaning "railroad" or "the railway".
Chemin de fer may refer to:
- Chemin-de-fer, the original version of the card game baccarat when it was introduced to France
- Le chemin de fer (Alkan), Op. 27, an 1844 étude composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Chemin de Fer, a play by Georges Feydeau (1862 - 1921)
- Étude aux chemins de fer, a 1948 composition by Pierre Schaeffer constructed from railway sounds
- "Chemin de Fer", a poem by Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979) from North and South
Usage examples of "chemin de fer".
When he had been twenty-nine and First Mate of the tanker Pacific Cou-rier, he had once walked out of a gaming house in Hong Kong with fifty thousand pounds sterling when the cards had come up right at chemin de fer.
To his way of looking at it, the vast difference between his playing chemin de fer with his own cash money at the Fitzhugh Club and the elevator man in the Andrew Foster Hotel playing the New York stock market with mostly borrowed Monopoly money was one more proof that most people were fools.
The shoe went slowly round the table, each banker in turn going down on that dread third coup which, for some reason, is the sound barrier at chemin de fer which must be broken if you are to have a run.
When he had been twenty-nine and First Mate of the tanker Pacific Courier, he had once walked out of a gaming house in Hong Kong with fifty thousand pounds sterling when the cards had come up right at chemin de fer.
But I've been practicing dealing, too-for black jack, or faro, or chemin de fer.
Also I'd been playing chemin de fer and there was a thick pad of banknotes in the inside pocket of my white jacket, another stuffed into the dark wine-colored cummerbund I was wearing.
Unlike the government-supervised casinos, bets there were unlimited, and that was where the high rollers came to play roulette, chemin de fer, and craps.