fan-tan
扇面,扇子,扇形,扇贝
Definitions
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- : Also fan tan .Also called parliament, sevens. Cards. a game in which the players play their sevens and other cards forming sequences in the same suits as their sevens, the winner being the player who first runs out of cards.
- : a Chinese gambling game in which a pile of coins, counters, or objects is placed under a bowl and bets are made on what the remainder will be after they have been counted off in fours.
Examples
We haven't had any real fan reaction yet, but our collective fingers are crossed.
Why do you think you were “an asperg-y movie fan…a jabbering repellent acolyte?”
Replying to a fan, she wrote, “Anthony Goldstein, Ravenclaw, Jewish wizard.”
Comments like that are designed to stoke the fires of fan-passion—and it works beautifully.
Otis says he was wearing a tan jacket similar to one described by witnesses.
She took the fan from Madame Ratignolle and began to fan both herself and her companion.
She bathed Madame Ratignolle's face with cologne, while Robert plied the fan with unnecessary vigor.
Rarely, sodium urate occurs in crystalline form—slender prisms, arranged in fan- or sheaf-like structures (Fig. 32).
She opened a large black fan and moved it slowly while looking intently at her son's bent profile.
In one, which occurs not infrequently, a thickened arm is made to expand into something like a fan-shaped hand, as in Fig. 18.