Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… skills such as card games, tennis or wagers on sports. Throughout the period, various gambling practices were associated with sociable behaviours and values, especially those of the gentleman . Pamphlets increasingly denounced gambling as a … 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 public venues welcomed … 1 . Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary defines gaming as “to play wantonly and extravagantly for money.” Other laws aimed, with little success, at suppressing the games of faro , basset or hazard (1739) or at preventing taverns and coffeehouses …
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