Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… from the West End only appropriated it at the beginning of the eighteenthcentury, thus creating a fashion among worldly circles. In 1742, Edmond Hoyle’s Short Treatise on Whist , in which the rules of the game are defined, became a … as part of gentlemanly culture. The one who could not play was considered as not well educated and unfit for the polite circles he aspired to integrate: 'Gameing is become so much the Fashion among the Beau Monde , that He, who in Company …
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