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World Gazetteer Results for Faro:
NameFaro
Geographical TypeLocality
Population41355
Latitude
Longitude
CountryPortugal
Administrative DivisionAlgarve
Dictionary Results for Faro:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
faro
    n 1: a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the
         cards he will draw from a dealing box

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Faro \Far"o\, n. [Said to be so called because the Egyptian king
   Pharaoh was formerly represented upon one of the cards.]
   A gambling game at cards, in which all the other players play
   against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the
   order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
   [1913 Webster]

   Faro bank, the capital which the proprietor of a faro table
      ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro
      is played. --Hoyle.
      [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
FARO, crim. law. There is a species of game called faro-table, or faro-bank, 
which is forbidden by law in many states; and the persons who keep it for 
the purpose of playing for money or other valuable thing, may generally be 
indicted at common law for a nuisance. 1 Roger's Rec. 66. It is played with 
cards in this manner: a pack of cards is displayed on the table so that the 
face of each card may be seen by the spectators. The man who keeps the bank, 
as it is termed, and who is called the banker, sits by the table with 
another pack of cards, and a bag containing money, some of which is 
displayed, or sometimes instead of money, chips, or small pieces of ivory or 
other substance are used. The parties who play with the banker, are called 
punters or pointeurs. Suppose the banker and A, a punter, wish to play for 
five dollars, the banker shuffles the pack which he holds in his hand, while 
A lays his money intended to be bet, say five dollars, on any card he may 
choose as aforesaid. The banker then runs the cards alternately into two 
piles, one on the right the other on the left, until he reaches, in the 
pack, the card corresponding to that on which A has laid his money. If, in 
this alternative, the card chosen comes on the right hand, the banker takes 
up the money. If on the other, A is entitled to five dollars from the 
banker. Several persons are usually engaged at the same table with the 
banker. 1 Rog. Rec. 66, note; Encycl. Amer. h.t. 



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