Antedating of "Black Jack" (Card Game)

[Shapiro, Fred]

black jack (card game) (OED 1917)

1911 _L.A. Times_ 3 Sept. VI1 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  Black-jack is merely another name for the old "twenty-one" game, or even before that, since it originated with the French, Vingt-et-une.

Fred Shapiro

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