Noun: chemin de fer
Sample Sentences
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Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered. [1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:]
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The person who left at 1:00 is either Alice or the woman who played chemin de fer (9), so in either case she is a woman. [2005, Mark Zegarelli, Poker Logic Puzzles, →ISBN, page 73:]
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“Come on,” Kit motioning her with his head over to a chemin-de-fer table [2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, pages 603–4:]
Nouns inflected like chemin de fer
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French chemin de fer (literally “railway”), from being a faster variant of baccarat. See: French Nouns '
chemin de fer'.