English Dictionary

croupier

/ˈkɹupiɚ/

noun

The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino. / One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

The croupier dealt the cards with precision.

意味（1）

The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.

Every time the little gate creaks--I'm in the shed with the tanks at the end of the garden--I wonder from which of my pasts the person is arriving, seeking me out even here: maybe it is only the past of yesterday and of this same suburb, the squat Arab garbage collector who in October begins his rounds for tips, house by house, with a Happy New Year card, because he says that his colleagues keep all the December tips for themselves and he never gets a penny; but it could also be the more distant pasts pursuing old Ruedi, finding the little gate in the Impasse: smugglers from Valais, mercenaries from Katanga, croupiers from the Veradero casino and the days of Fulgencio Batista.

意味（2）

One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.