monte

nouncommon in dialogue

//ˈmɒnti//

A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.

noun

1
A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.
A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.
2
A wood or forest; timberland.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.

Forms

plural: montes

monstrous · Hideous or frightful.Montague · A surname from Old French, variant of Montagu.Montana · A placename. A town and province in northwestern Bulgaria.

monte · A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.

Monte · A surname.Montecito · A census-designated place in Santa Barbara County,…Montgomery · A surname from Old French.

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