gaminghouse

Updated: May 27, 2025

"None; to elude all pursuit, he went out before any body in the house was stirring, and took his servant with him." "Have you, then, been to Sir Robert?" "I have been to Cavendish-Square, but there, it seems, he has not appeared all night; I traced him, through his servants, from the Opera to a gaminghouse, where I found he had amused himself till this morning."

Fanny Burney - Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1

Of actual destitution, never having felt it, she could not conceive; and therefore she did not take account of its possibility in her case. So, having recovered from her brief panic, she went to bed and slept soundly. The next morning Ned was in jubilant spirits. His visit the previous night had been to a gaminghouse in Covent Garden, and fortune had showered him with benefactions.

Robert Neilson Stephens - Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.