Word: jeux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next reference to cards was in the accounts of the Royal treasurer of Charles VI of France in 1392, where an item appeared for three painted "jeux de carte" for His Majesty. The painter Grinogonneux was commissioned to paint these gorgeous cards, of which there are examples at the Library...
...other hand ... it errs in being the somewhat prolix promulgator of impertinent puns. Its jeux d'esprit are sometimes not in the best of taste. J. F. AGEE...
...Messieurs?Mesdames?faites vos jeux...
...authorities now look forward to a better season. Following the psychology of roulette it seems certain that many hundreds of thousands of people will assemble in the famous salons to listen to the monotonous chant of the croupiers: "Messieurs, faites vos jeux." "Les jeux sont faits." "Rien ne va plus." "Zero!" Then will follow the usual clatter of "blancs, rouges et plaques" accompanied by the suppressed groans of the gamblers, except, of course, the tittering individual in the corner who had five francs on zero...