A game of chance.
1858. The game is fully described in the Knickerbocker Mag., li. 470–2 (May).
1879. The men congregate … to play cards and keno for small stakes,—usually not more than five cents,—to drink liquor, and to arrange for races, cock-fights, and Saturday night balls.—R. L. Daniels, ‘The Acadians of Louisiana,’ Scribner’s Mag., xix. 386/1 (Jan.). (N.E.D.)
1879. Cards, monte, roulette, keno, faro, chuck-a-luck, and, in fact, every game of chance known, was freely indulged in.—Prison Experience No. 3: ‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ vii. 489 (Richmond, Va.).
