Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house in which games with dice are played; a gaming-house.
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Examples
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He felt, that were His Majesty to hear his music, there would be a farther supply of language savouring rather of the dicing-house than the cathedral.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 Various
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Or when the person fetcheth his translations from a wrong place as if a privy councillor should at the table take his metaphor from a dicing-house, or ordinary, or a vintner's vault; or a justice of peace draw his similitudes from the mathematics, or a divine from a bawdy house, or taverns; or a gentleman of Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, or the Midland, should fetch all the illustrations to his country neighbours from shipping, and tell them of the main-sheet and the bowline.
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605
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