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gambling house
noun
a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
Origin:
1830–40
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gambling house
noun
a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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"The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice."
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