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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) A game of chance similar to roulette, played for low stakes on a board on which the numbers 1 to 70 are marked..
He seldom approached the table at which she was playing cavagnole, choosing to maintain the utmost reserve toward her.
The King, his grandson and granddaughter again presented themselves to public view, this time playing cavagnole at a table in the royal apartments while six thousand invited guests took advantage of the privilege of watching them.
There, like the monkeys in my father’s zoo at the palace of Laxenburg, whose antics were displayed for the delight of the Austrian elite, Louis Auguste and I were expected to amuse the crush of ducs and duchesses, marquis and marquises, and comtes and comtesses whose rank accorded them the privilege of watching the heirs to the throne of France play a few rounds of cavagnole with members of the Orléans branch of the Bourbons.
Use cavagnole when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cavagnole means (historical) A game of chance similar to roulette, played for low stakes on a board on which the numbers 1 to 70 are marked..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He seldom approached the table at which she was playing cavagnole, choosing to maintain the utmost reserve toward her.
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