NOUN
- a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21
How To Use vingt-et-un In A Sentence
- In my first term at prep school, I was introduced to vingt-et-un.
- Or leaning over the green baize card table, watching while she and Isolde played vingt-et-un. Sepulchre
- After admiring the splendors of the apartment and the beautiful women there displayed, who had all outdone each other in their dress for this occasion, Oscar was taken by the hand and led by Florentine to a vingt-et-un table. A Start in Life
- Il y avait vingt-et-un ans que j'étais en purgatoire, oublié de ma parenté et de mes amis... Les Anges et les Âmes du Purgatoire
- In the salon, the women were playing at vingt-et-un, kept by Nathan, the celebrated author. A Start in Life
- If dating was vingt-et-un, I'd always, invariably, get a crap hand like thirteen or fourteen, go for another card and get a king... Archive 2008-03-01
- They had also come to invite her to play vingt-et-un one evening at Mrs. Merriman's. The Awakening
- The Moslems do indulge in opium and the Alfurus in sagwire*, but gambling is restricted to the Rajah and the headmen—strangely enough, their favorite game is vingt-et-un. my bold emphasis Archive 2008-08-01
- During the next century, French colonists brought the game of vingt-et-un across the ocean to Canada and the United States, and the game started making regular appearances in North American casinos in the early twentieth century.
- The older adults played vingt-et-un (Twenty-one) or other card games while the young danced and engaged in flirtations until the party dispersed near daybreak.
