Word: bachaumont
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...uncertain when this simplification and corruption occurred, but it must have been almost 200 years ago. The Rev. Ed. S. Taylor's famous history of playing cards, published in 1865, quoting from the memoirs of Barere and de Bachaumont, says that creps was one of the principal games played in the gambling houses of the Palais Royal in Paris in the latter part of the 18th Century. In 1818, long before craps was popular in the U. S., the Bibliothéque Historique referred to "one table of craps" as among the frivolities of the gambling houses of Paris...