Croupier [adjective]

Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.

The croupier announces, intoning as does a high-church curate, "There is seven hundred and forty pounds in the bank, gentlemen."

The croupier pushes the seven hundred and forty pounds of the unlucky player a foot nearer to the bank.

“Ajugé à quarante louis,” cried the croupier, no one bidding higher.

The next instant, he has raked the butt of your discarded cigarette from beneath your feet with the dexterity of a- 31 - croupier.

At last, one evening, he walked up to a table and said to the croupier, "When was zero up last?"

A shady croupier, Morin by name, obliged to leave Paris, came over to London and introduced basset.

A red-haired croupier sat at the end of the table nearest her, and she went to him, and gave him one of the fifty-franc notes.

"Mais a y est," said the croupier, for the fifty-franc note that had won still lay at the corner of the top line.

The croupier flattened the notes out on the table and knocked the little pile of gold lightly over with his rake.