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dicer
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synonyms: thimblerigger, sharper, blackleg, ambodexter, grifter, chevalier dʼindustrie ???
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Definition:A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
painting: by Murillo, 1675gratuitous sound file: by joanneneedsthesound, CC0
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From the faire forehead of an innocent love,
And makes a blister there. Makes marriage vowes
As false as Dicers Oathes.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Ten to one the field. Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the vying caps and jackets and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher’s dame, nuzzling thirstily her clove of orange.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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‘Who are you — with a murrain to you? No honest buyer. I’ll warrant, but a hanger-on of the dicers — or something worse. Go! dance off, and find fitter company, or I’ll give you a tune to a little quicker time than you’ll like.’
George Eliot. Romola
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