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)

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Example sentences

The last miners there tore down a gambling house and panned two thousand dollars in gold dust from beneath its floor.

Rather than yield to fatigue, he occasionally left his office at two or three am and went to a gambling house.

Ben had lost heavily, and had pledged his jewelry to the gambling house.

Starting as an altercation between a gambling house proprietor and a visiting fireman it soon escalated into a riot.

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