Also casino. [Another form of CASINO.] A game at cards in which the ten of diamonds, called great cassino (or great cass) counts two points, and the two of spades, called little cassino (or little cass) counts one; eleven points constituting the game. Also attrib., as cassino table.
1792. W. Roberts, Looker-on (1794), I. 250. A large party at Faro and Cassino was made … at a great house in Piccadilly.
1800. Jane Austen, Lett. (1884), I. 245. A whist and a casino table. Ibid. (1811), Sense & Sens., II. i. 122. Lady Middleton proposed a rubber of Cassino to the others.
1811. [E. Nares], Thinks-I-to-Myself (ed. 4), II. 132–4 (D.). Two whist, cassino, or quadrille tables will dispose of four couple…. ‘Great cass, little cass, and the spades, Ma’am.’
