faro
pronunciation
How to pronounce faro in British English:
UK ['feərəʊ]
How to pronounce faro in American English:
US [ 'fɛro]
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- Noun:
- a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box
Word Origin
- faro (n.)
- 18th century gambling game with cards, 1726, sometimes said to be altered from pharaoh, perhaps his image was on one of the cards, but early descriptions of the game give no indication of this and it seems to have been played with a standard deck.
Example
- 1. The faro caudill family eating dinner in their dugout .
- 2. There really is more to faro than winding streets .
- 3. And if so , what happens to jack faro ?
- 4. Wyatt just got us a faro game .
- 5. This book introduced spanish andaluxiya , the portuguese faro , irish , german places the such as haidebao , greece lin zuosi , italy , britain 7 manors .