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Monte

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El Mon⋅te

  [el mon-tee]
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–noun
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles. 79,494.

mon⋅te

  [mon-tee]
–noun Cards.
1. Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
2. three-card monte (def. 1).
Origin:
1815–25; < Sp: mountain, hence, heap (of cards); see mount 2

Mon⋅te

  [mon-tee]
–noun
a male given name.
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mon·te   (mŏn'tē)   
n.  A card game in which two cards are chosen from four laid out face-up and a player bets that one of the two will be matched in suit by the dealer before the other one.

[Spanish, mountain, pile, monte, from Italian, from Latin mōns, mont-, mountain; see men-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

monte 
"gambling card game," 1824, from Sp. monte "mountain," from L. montem (nom. mons), see mount (v.). So called from the heap of cards left after dealing. A favorite in California during the gold rush years. The three-card form (first attested 1877) is of Mexican origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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