Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… Gambling was also popular with women who, long excluded from independent economic and political activity, found in such rituals a sphere of influence in their role as the arbiters of taste and leaders of fashion. Early satirical plays … public respectability of a gentleman, provided that he had good manners and conversation. Therefore, g ambling was often ritualized and required the control of one’s emotions. For instance, faro players at Brooks’s relentlessly reproduced the … of honour' ( gambling debts due to other gentlemen) were the first ones that one should pay. By following the rules and rituals attached to gambling or betting and by paying his debts, the gentleman aimed to uphold his social status: ' …
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