[Ads-l] Antedating of "Three-Card Monte"

[Shapiro, Fred]

three-card monte (OED 1854)

1852 Commonwealth (Boston) 30 Dec. 1/6 (Genealogy Bank)

A young lady ... charges that the defendants swindled her out of sixteen dollars and a gold locket, in an unfair game at what is called "three card monte."

Fred Shapiro

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