Etymology

vingt-et-un

Today it means: The card game pontoon. Full definition →

French vingt-et-un
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromvingt-et-un“twenty-one”
  2. English todayvingt-et-un

Unadapted borrowing from French vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.