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faro

UK/ˈfɛəɹəʊ/ US/ˈfɛroʊ/ rare

noun

1.

a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box

Origin

Presumably an alteration of pharaoh, itself a transcription of French pharaon, perhaps as a name for the King of Hearts.

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