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Word: cusek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...picul of gold was a drop in the bucket; he had reaped one of the polyglot Portuguese colony's biggest fortunes from his teeming salons, where gamblers from nearby Hong Kong and South China came for fan-tan and cusek (played with dice). During the war Foo got into the big time; he cornered Macao's food market. On the profits he kept six concubines in a Macao mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACAO: Piculs of Gold | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

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