Paum

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Paum
To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

paum
An obsolete form of palm.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary See Palm to cheat

Usage in the news

The Jeu de Paume, Paris, July 5–September 26, 2010. nybooks.com

When it housed the world's finest collection of Impressionist art, the Jeu de Paume was the best-loved museum in Paris. nytimes.com

Estate of André Kertész and the Jeu de Paume/French Ministry for Culture and Communication. nytimes.com

Usage in literature

This, then, is the Session of the Tennis-Court, famed Seance du Jeu de Paume; the fame of which has gone forth to all lands. "The French Revolution" by Thomas Carlyle

In these adjoining pavilions there were baths, a theatre, a 'paume' ground, swings, a chapel, billiard-rooms, and other salons. "The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete" by Madame La Marquise De Montespan

JEU DE PAUME, an oath which the deputies of the Third Estate took on June 13, 1789, not to separate till they had given France a constitution. "The Nuttall Encyclopaedia" by Edited by Rev. James Wood

At riding, shooting and fencing he was the better; at paume and tennis he always won. "In Kings' Byways" by Stanley J. Weyman

It is Wednesday, June 20, 1792, the anniversary of the oath of the Jeu de Paume. "Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty" by Imbert de Saint-Amand

You are now nearly where you were at the Jeu de Paume, on the 20th of June 1789. "Thomas Jefferson" by Gilbert Chinard