croupy
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Writers for The New Yorker in the 1930s and ’40s described him as a “Superman of Law” who spoke in a “gruff, croupy, dictatorial tone.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2012
Shirtless, tattooed, dirty looking, he stood straight up, sneakers together, his guitar neck at 2 o’clock, pumping his chords at a strange angle across the strings, wincing or looking terrified between croupy roars.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2010
Operagoers that bleak February night cheered themselves croupy while tears ran down many a wrinkled old cheek.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead he makes all but the cleverest of his tall opponents look like croupy giraffes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been perfectly healthy until that morning, when he woke with a fever and croupy cough.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
A broke writer gets a job as a croupier and becomes involved with a woman who wants to rob his casino.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
He treated her to haircuts in fashionable Mayfair, where he was working as a croupier.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2017
He had grown up in Monaco, where as a young man he had worked as a croupier at the Casino de Monte-Carlo, and developed an excellent poker face.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
The rest of the movie was stuffed with first-rate character actors from around the world, including Ms. LeBeau’s then-husband, Marcel Dalio, as Emil the croupier.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2016
The croupier, sitting opposite to collect and pay the bets, was shuffling the cards, before putting them in a small double box, from which the banker was to draw them.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
