impair

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Thus a player staking on Black and Impair has no less than twenty-eight numbers in his favour, on eight of which he wins both his stakes, and on twenty he neither wins nor loses.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

Besides the three even chances: Red, Black; Pair, Impair; Passe or Manque, one single number may be backed.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

It was a network of hopes; which at the announcement, 'Sept, Rouge, Impair, et Manque,' disappeared like magic gossamer, to be replaced in a moment by new.

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas

Moreover, if you have placed another sum of money in the compartment inscribed, in legible yellow colours, "Impair," or Odd, you will receive the equivalent to your stake—twenty-nine being an odd number.

From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew

Thus Impair contains 10 Red numbers, and but 8 Black ones.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis