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gambling house

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Noun1.gambling housegambling house - a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)
gambling den, gambling hell, gaming house
business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"
building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
casino, gambling casino - a public building for gambling and entertainment
business establishment, place of business - an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered
Translations
gambling house n → casinò m inv, casa da gioco
gambling house n → casinò m inv, casa da gioco


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Your worship must know that this gentleman has just now won more than a thousand reals in that gambling house opposite, and God knows how.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
From the selling of quack medicines he had proceeded to the adulterating of foreign wines, varied by lucrative evening occupation in the Paris gambling houses.
A Rogue's Life by Collins, Wilkie View in context
I cannot think they will help to refine the ragamuffins if they read them, and I'm sure they can do no good to the better class of boys, who through these books are introduced to police courts, counterfeiters' dens, gambling houses, drinking saloons, and all sorts of low life.
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