Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… as card games, dice, etc. 1 Throughout the period, various games or gambling practices went in and out of fashion in England and were associated with sociable behaviours and values, especially those of the gentleman . Different private or … sure to be rattling, and the cards were being cut and shuffled.' 3 From the very beginning of the eighteenth century, England was invaded by a passion for gambling, a cultural and social phenomenon which progressively became an ordinary … Ombre , Basset , Piquet , imported from European courts—respectively Spain, France and Italy—were well established in England. Quadrille , a variant of the three-player Spanish card game Ombre , originally played by the French nobility, …
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