Monte Definition–noun Cards. | 1. | Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up. | |
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resort, one of the four quartiers (sections) of Monaco. It is situated on an escarpment at the base of the Maritime Alps along the French Riviera, on the Mediterranean, just northeast of Nice, Fr. ...
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
ballet company founded in Monte-Carlo in 1932. The name Ballets Russes had been used by the impresario Sergey Diaghilev for his company, which revolutionized ballet in the first three decades of the ...
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automobile racing
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Russian impresario who in 1932 became codirector with Rene Blum of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. He lost the celebrated premier danseur Leonide Massine and several other dancers to Blum, who, with ...
Danielian, Leon
American ballet dancer who had an inimitable stage presence and masterful technique and achieved his greatest fame with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo during the 1940s and '50s; in the '60s he ...
rally
automobile competition over a specified public route with a driver and navigator attempting to keep to a predetermined schedule between checkpoints. The course is generally unknown to contestants ...
automobile racing
Racing over specified routes, the driver being kept on course by a navigator between checkpoints, began in 1907 with a Peking-to-Paris race of about 12,000 km. The Monte-Carlo Rally from various ...
Baronova, Irina
Russian-born ballerina was the youngest and most graceful of the "baby ballerinas," a trio of teenage dancers who in the 1930s captured public attention and attracted audiences to the Ballet Russe de ...
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Memorial University of Newfoundland - Found 8 hours ago
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CNET.co.uk - Found Nov. 16, 2008
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