[ ˌtrɒ~teɪka'rɒ~t ]
■ noun a gambling game in which cards are turned up on a table marked with red and black diamonds.
Origin
Fr., lit. 'thirty and forty', these being winning and losing numbers respectively in the game.
[ ˌtrɒ~teɪka'rɒ~t ]
■ noun a gambling game in which cards are turned up on a table marked with red and black diamonds.
Origin
Fr., lit. 'thirty and forty', these being winning and losing numbers respectively in the game.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004