chemin de fer

1. 1.

   a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine

   Synonymsbaccarat

   Broadercard game

Questions about chemin de fer

What does chemin de fer mean?

chemin de fer means "a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine".

What is another word for chemin de fer?

Close synonyms include baccarat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chemin de fer a common word?

chemin de fer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.