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.
    • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎:
      As a matter of fact, the mob was playing in exceedingly foul fashion. Indeed, I have an idea that sheer robbery was going on around that gaming-table. The croupiers who sat at the two ends of it had not only to watch the stakes, but also to calculate the game—an immense amount of work for two men! As for the crowd itself—well, it consisted mostly of Frenchmen.
    • 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

Etymology

From croupe +‎ -ier.

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
nominative genitive
singular indefinite croupier croupiers
definite croupieren croupierens
plural indefinite croupierer croupierers
definite croupiererna croupierernas

References

  1. ^ croupier in Svensk ordbok.
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