hasardrie
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Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French hasarderie; equivalent to hasard + -erie.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hasardrie (uncountable)
- (Excessive) playing of hazard (a medieval dice game often gambled upon).
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 589–592:
- And now that I have ſpoken of glotonye, / Now wol I yow deffenden haſardrye; / Haſard is verray mooder of leſynges, / And of deceite, and curſed forſwerynges […]
- And since I've spoken about gluttony, / Now, I'll prevent you from dice-playing; / Dice games are literally the source of falsehoods, / deception, and false testimonies […]
Descendants
[edit]- English: hazardry (obsolete)
References
[edit]- “hasardrīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-08.
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- enm:Dice games
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