Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… gambling clubs or elite assemblies at private residences to popular city taverns or coffeehouses where various social classes mingled and indulged in fashionable games, thus fostering new forms of sociable interactions. Treatises and … men. 3 . G. O. Trevelyan, The Early History of Charles James Fox (London: Longmans, Green & co, 1881), p. 88-89. Popular classes spent their meagre savings in the numerous gambling houses, taverns or coffee-houses of the capital, even after … faro players at Brooks’s relentlessly reproduced the same gestures: 14 . Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class [1899] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 53. They began by pulling off their embroidered clothes, and put …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
Encyclopedia