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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  faro
       n : a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the
           cards he will draw from a dealing box

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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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