Also 7–8 trante. [F. trente:—Com. Romanic *trinta, *trenta, for L. trīgintā thirty.)
† 1. Cards. ? A combination of cards counting thirty, or the score gained by them. Obs.
1706. Mrs. Centlivre, Basset-Table, IV. I have lost a Trante and Leva, my ill fortune has not forsook me yet.
2. Trente et quarante, in 7 erron. trante a courante [F. = thirty and forty], another name for the game of rouge-et-noir (in which thirty and forty are, respectively, winning and losing numbers).
1671. Lady Mary Bertie, in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 22. Wee play sometimes at trante a courante.
1764. H. Walpole, Lett. to Earl Hertford, 25 Nov. Hazard, Quinze, and Trente-et-Quarante.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, lxiii. A room for trente-et-quarante and roulette.
1892. F. Wicks, Veiled Hand, xviii. 158. He would have one look at the trente et quarante table.
