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Meanings of fantan in English
Portuguese
dominó de baralho A card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards.
A Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4)
Usage of fantan in English
1
There's a new one this week, the Fantan, fifty cents each, will you have that?
2
I especially liked the fantans, which, like a deck of cards, could be pulled apart in tender stages.