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Monte

Monte \Mon"te\ (m[o^]n"t[asl]), n. [Sp., lit., mountain, hence, the stock of cards remaining after laying out a certain number, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain.] A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.

three-card monte 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.

Monte

Monte \Mon"te\, n. In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
monte

gambling card game, 1824, from Spanish monte "mountain," from Latin montem (nominative mons), see mount (n.). So called from the heap of cards left after dealing. A favorite in California during the gold rush years. The three-card form (first attested 1877) is of Mexican origin.

Wiktionary
monte

n. 1 (context card games English) a game in which 3 or 4 cards are dealt face-up and players bet which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt 2 (cx Latin America English) A wood or forest; timberland.

WordNet
monte

n. a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of the will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time [syn: four-card monte, three-card monte]

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Monte

Monte may refer to:

Monte (Funchal)

Monte is a civil parish in the municipality and a suburb of Funchal in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. Locally, the parish is also known as Nossa Senhora do Monte . The population in 2011 was 6,701, in an area of 18.59 kmĀ². Monte is located a few kilometres east of Funchal.

Monte (mascot)

Monte, short for Montana, is the University of Montana's award-winning athletics mascot. He is modeled after a grizzly bear, in reference to the nickname of the university's athletic teams, the Grizzlies.

Monte (dessert)

Monte is a milk cream dessert brand, made by the dairy company Zott. It is a dessert made of milk, chocolate and hazelnuts. Zott Monte advertises with the slogan full taste, full power, full fun!. Monte is worldwide one of the most famous brands of Zott and it is delivered in over 40 countries. Monte is a dessert with the combination of milk cream, hazelnuts and chocolate. Monte product range varied within the different countries.

Usage examples of "monte".

Ma altre forze nemiche, numerose e fresche accorsero a sostenere e raccogliere i fuggenti pigliando posizione dietro le alture del monte S.

Le tumulus sur lequel vous etes monte offre un autre temoignage de la piete bretonne.

Turner watercolour behind the wainscoting so we can ballock the boss and eagle off to Monte Carlo.

I accordingly took the opportunity to explain that I myself was in Monte Carlo for reasons connected with the Daffodil settlement, that I had been commissioned by Clementine to investigate the genealogy of the Palgrave family, and that by a curious coincidence my researches had led me to the South of France.

Punta Parise, at the western end of the island, beneath the shadow of Monte Alberto Sole.

Une rampe monte en serpentant a une vieille porte de la ville qui reste debout, flanquee de ses deux tours decrenelees que fleurissent de petits oeillets roses.

Poor Danglars looked so crestfallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him.

Poor Danglars looked so crest-fallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him.

Monte Cristo pointed to a chair, which the procureur was obliged to take the trouble to move forwards himself, while the count merely fell back into his own, on which he had been kneeling when M.

Monte Cristo to himself, glancing at Madame Danglars, who was smiling on the procureur, and embracing his wife.

It being admitted that the object of the Sacro Monte workmen was to bring a scene home to the spectator in all possible fulness, we expect to have a quotum of our own ideas of the scene, whatever they may be, put before us, and are more or less offended when we find a composition which we consider to be unreal even within its own covenanted limitations.

Hic ante Apollinem ex oraculo in monte Parnasso responsa dare solitus est.

On again visiting Milan I found in the Biblioteca Nazionale a guidebook to the Sacro Monte, which was not in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and of whose existence I had never heard.

Another document which I have in vain tried to see is the plan of the Sacro Monte as it stood towards the close of the sixteenth century, made by Pellegrino Tibaldi with a view to his own proposed alterations.

Val Sesia would not suffice to do justice to all the interesting and important questions which arise wholesale as soon as the chapels on the Sacro Monte are examined with any care.