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Webster 1913 Edition


Faro

Far′o

,
Noun.
[Said to be so called because the Egyptian king
Pharaoh
was formerly represented upon one of the cards.]
A gambling game at cards, in which all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
Faro bank
,
the capital which the proprietor of a faro table ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played.
Hoyle.

Definition 2024


Fårö

Fårö

See also: faro, Faro, and farò

English

Proper noun

Fårö

  1. A Baltic Sea island just north of the Swedish island of Gotland.

Translations


Swedish

Etymology

From far-, as in farväg or farvatten, + ö (island). The folk etymology connecting it with får (sheep) is spurious.

Proper noun

Fårö

  1. Fårö