Monte Definition
mŏntē
noun
A gambling game of Spanish origin played with a special deck of forty cards, in which the players bet against a banker on the suit of cards to be turned up from the deck.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- three-card-monte
- four-card monte
Origin of Monte
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Spanish mountain, pile, monte from Italian from Latin mōns mont- mountain men-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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