Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A style of European helmet from the late Middle Ages, long on the sides and in back to protect the neck, and usually having a T-shaped opening in the front.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Originally a brothel, the Jungle Inn was an open casino offering huge crowds of gamblers craps, a Greek dice game called barbut, chuck-a-luck, roulette, cards, and even bingo for the ladies.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Originally a brothel, the Jungle Inn was an open casino offering huge crowds of gamblers craps, a Greek dice game called barbut, chuck-a-luck, roulette, cards, and even bingo for the ladies.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Originally a brothel, the Jungle Inn was an open casino offering huge crowds of gamblers craps, a Greek dice game called barbut, chuck-a-luck, roulette, cards, and even bingo for the ladies.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Originally a brothel, the Jungle Inn was an open casino offering huge crowds of gamblers craps, a Greek dice game called barbut, chuck-a-luck, roulette, cards, and even bingo for the ladies.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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In Little Italy, Licavoli had control of one of the most lucrative barbut games in the region.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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In Little Italy, Licavoli had control of one of the most lucrative barbut games in the region.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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In Little Italy, Licavoli had control of one of the most lucrative barbut games in the region.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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In Little Italy, Licavoli had control of one of the most lucrative barbut games in the region.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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The barbut and rubab thus were different instruments as late as the 19th century in Persia.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Day and night was the Nightingale fluttering round the rose-bower, and tuning the barbut [13] of his soul-deluding melody; indeed, whilst the
Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869
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