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Vinony

monte

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnti/

name

Etymology: From Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian, from monte.

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.

  1. A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.

    “A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.”

  2. A wood or forest; timberland.