hazardry
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English hasardrie, from Middle French hasarderie; equivalent to hazard + -ry.
Noun[edit]
hazardry (usually uncountable, plural hazardries)
- (obsolete) Gambling.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Some fell to daunce, some fell to hazardry, / Some to make loue, some to make meriment […]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
hazardry
- Alternative form of hasardrie
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