croupier

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French croupier.

Pronunciation

Noun

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croupier (plural croupiers)

  1. The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
    • 1979, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler:
      Every time the little gate creaks--I'm in the shed with the tanks at the end of the garden--I wonder from which of my pasts the person is arriving, seeking me out even here: maybe it is only the past of yesterday and of this same suburb, the squat Arab garbage collector who in October begins his rounds for tips, house by house, with a Happy New Year card, because he says that his colleagues keep all the December tips for themselves and he never gets a penny; but it could also be the more distant pasts pursuing old Ruedi, finding the little gate in the Impasse: smugglers from Valais, mercenaries from Katanga, croupiers from the Veradero casino and the days of Fulgencio Batista.
  2. One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

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Further reading

  • croupier”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

croupier m (plural croupiers, feminine croupière)

  1. croupier

Descendants

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Spanish

Noun

croupier m (plural croupieres or croupiers)

  1. Alternative form of crupier

Swedish

Etymology

From French croupier, attested from 1780.

Noun

croupier c

  1. a croupier

Declension

Declension of croupier 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative croupier croupieren croupierer croupiererna
Genitive croupiers croupierens croupierers croupierernas

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