[Ads-l] RES: Antedating of "Craps" (Game)

[David Daniel]

According to an assortment of French dictionaries (not including Larousse,
which doesn't have it, but here's one
http://artflx.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/dicos/pubdico1look.pl?strippedhw=creps)
creps is a dice game that originated in England. One dictionary even says it
is a corruption of English "crabs". 
DAD




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