From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Monte \Mon"te\ (m[o^]n"t[asl]), n. [Sp., lit., mountain, hence,
the stock of cards remaining after laying out a certain
number, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain.]
A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or
cards.
[1913 Webster]
{three-card monte} a gambling game using playing cards, in
which a dealer shows a bettor three cards face up and
specifies one to be identified, and after the cards are
turned face down and moved around quickly, the bettor must
identify which of the three cards is the specified card.
It is sometimes engaged in by dealers on the streets of a
city, with bets made by passers-by.
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Monte \Mon"te\, n.
In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in
parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
monte
n 1: a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are
dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be
matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the
pack one at a time [syn: {monte}, {four-card monte},
{three-card monte}]
From Portuguese-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-por-eng]:
monte
mountain
From Italian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-ita-eng]:
monte
mountain
From Spanish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-spa-eng]:
monte
mountain(monto)
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