monte

noun

mon·​te ˈmän-tē 

1

: a card game in which players select any two of four cards turned face up in a layout and bet that one of them will be matched before the other as cards are dealt one at a time from the pack

called also monte bank

2

: three-card monte

Word History

Etymology

Spanish, bank, mountain, heap, from Italian, from Latin mont-, mons mountain

First Known Use

1824, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing monte

• three-card monte