chemin de fer
See also: chemin-de-fer
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French chemin de fer (literally “railway”), from being a faster variant of baccarat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chemin de fer (uncountable)
- A card game, a variation of baccarat.
- 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:
- Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.
- 2005, Mark Zegarelli, Poker Logic Puzzles, →ISBN, page 73:
- The person who left at 1:00 is either Alice or the woman who played chemin de fer (9), so in either case she is a woman.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, pages 603–4:
- “Come on,” Kit motioning her with his head over to a chemin-de-fer table
French edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “iron way.” Compare German Eisenbahn, Italian ferrovia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chemin de fer m (plural chemins de fer)
- railroad, railway
- Synonyms: voie ferrée, railway
- (card games) chemin de fer
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: سِكّةُ حَدِيدٍ (sikkatu ḥadīdin) (calque)
- → Armenian: շիմէնտիֆէր (šimēntifēr), շըմէնտուրա (šəmēntura)
- → Ottoman Turkish: شمندوفر (şümendüfer, şömendüfer, şimendüfer, şemendüfer), شمندفر (şümendefer, şömendefer, şimendefer, şemendefer, şümendifer, şömendifer, şimendifer, şemendifer); شمندیفر (şümendifer, şömendifer, şimendifer, şemendifer)
- Turkish: şümendüfer, şömendüfer, şimendüfer, şemendüfer, şümendefer, şömendefer, şimendefer, şemendefer, şümendifer, şömendifer, şimendifer, şemendifer (dated)
- → Turkish: demir yolu (calque)
- → Persian: راهآهن (râh-âhan) (calque)
- → Vietnamese: đường sắt (calque)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “chemin de fer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French chemin de fer (“railway”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chemin de fer n (uncountable)
- chemin de fer (a card game)