Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… in the fact that it defined a form of sociability but was denounced as anti-social. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Clubs Duelling Gaming Gentleman Horseracing Suicide From the Restoration to the first decade of the Victorian era, gaming … those of the gentleman . Different private or public venues welcomed parties of gamesters, from exclusive gambling clubs or elite assemblies at private residences to popular city taverns or coffeehouses where various social classes … in cards and dice." The Connoisseur, n° 15. Gaming and gambling spread far beyond the confines of specialist gambling clubs like White’s or Brooks's or the more common card clubs. Virtually no type of society was exempt, whether they were …
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