Fantan

When we got there, I played fantan in the Lisboa and he crossed over into Zhongshan. ❋ Boudreau Freret (2010)

To make the fantan just roll out a generous chunk of dough a loaf's worth into a rectangle approximately 1/8 thickness on a floured surface. ❋ Gumbo Lily (2008)

She enjoyed blackjack and fantan, but gin was mother's milk to her. ❋ Holland, Barbara (1999)

They were like the professional gamblers, the unsavory flotsam always crowded into the fantan parlors of Saigon. ❋ Patterson, James (1986)

It is so easy to transform a game of baccarat, faro, or fantan into an innocent game of bridge or whist with a few innocent spectators, and to hide all gambling instruments between the time the police knock and the time they effect an entry. ❋ Frank Froest (N/A)

This standing temptation of the fantan shops is a fertile source of crime, especially amongst domestic servants, for apart from the ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)

These fantan shops, of which there may be twenty or thirty, are all licensed and kept under strict supervision, being farmed out to rich syndicates by the Portuguese authorities, the large sums thus realised forming no inconsiderable part of the colony's revenue. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)

At Hongkong gambling is strictly prohibited amongst the Chinese, while at Canton gaming-houses are heavily taxed, so that natives come in great numbers from both places to Macao in order to play _fantan_ without constant dread of police interference. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)

All fantan shops, as they are called, contain but one gambling-table each, which is on the ground floor. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)

Having ruined himself at fantan he dared not return to Hongkong. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)

Here is also a wide-open gambling establishment where hundreds of Chinese may be seen playing "fantan." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Tea store below, fantan next floor, restaurant top side all the way through the block. ❋ Will Irwin (1910)

Men moved in and around them unconcernedly, and at the entrance and within the enclosure there was a temporary fantan gambling shop, composed of bamboo poles and mats, in full operation, surrounded by crowds of people. ❋ Andrew Carnegie (1877)

At almost every corner we pass crowds of poor wretches gambling in various modes, from fantan down to dice and dominoes. ❋ Andrew Carnegie (1877)

May she get paid in funny money and lose it all at fantan, say I. ❋ Unknown (1981)

Example 1 Sentence: Hey man want to go get some chicken from KFC? Or : Hey [Fantan] want to go get some [fantan] from fantan? or : fantan man want to fantan some chicken from kfc fantanor : Hey man fantan to get fantan fantan kfc fantanExample 2 Hey John have you been to the Loft recently? their [cookie and cream] cake is awesome. or: Hey Fantan have you been to the fantan fantan? their cookie and cream fantan is awesome. or: Hey John fantan been to the loft fantan? their fantan and cream fantan is fantan. or: John fantan loft fantan [cream cake]. Example three infinity divided by zero = fantan. ❋ Danayh (2007)