barbotte

English

Etymology

From Turkish barbut.

Noun

barbotte (uncountable)

1. A Canadian dice game akin to craps.
   • 1949, Ernest Evred Blanche, You can't win: facts and fallacies about gambling:

     Canadians prefer the game of barbotte...

   • 1967, Richard A Epstein, The theory of gambling and statistical logic:

     Barbotte is a Canadian version of Craps wherein the player wins if the two dice produce 3-3, 5-5, 6-6, or 6-5.

   • 1988, James H Marsh, The Canadian encyclopedia:

     For the past century or so the most popular gambling games have been the card games of poker, stook and blackjack, and the dice games of craps and barbotte.

   • 2003, Suzanne Morton, At Odds: Gambling and Canadians 1919–1969, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 49:

     Games in such clubs ranged from poker, through roulette to location-specific pastimes such as the Montreal dice game barbotte.

Alternative forms

• barbooth

French

Noun

barbotte f (plural barbottes)

1. Alternative form of barbote

Further reading

• “barbotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.