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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time [syn: monte, four-card monte, three-card monte]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Spanish, bank, mountain, heap, from Italian, from Latin mont-, mons mountain Date: 1824 1. a card game in which players select any two of four cards turned face up in a layout and bet that one of them will be matched before the other as cards are dealt one at a time from the pack — called also monte bank 2. three-card monte

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Cards 1 a Spanish game of chance, played with 45 cards. 2 (in full three-card monte) a game of Mexican origin played with three cards, similar to three-card trick. Etymology: Sp., = mountain, heap of cards

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Monte Mon"te, n. [Sp., lit., mountain, hence, the stock of cards remaining after laying out a certain number, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain.] A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Monte Mon"te, n. In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.