[ noun ] a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine <noun.act>
Baccara \Bac`ca*ra"\, Baccarat \Bac`ca*rat"\, n. [F.] A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.
Irene Dunne filled the screen like a good vintage champagne in a Baccarat crystal goblet.
The main competitors are the French company Baccarat, Villeroy & Boch of Germany, and Brown-Forman Corp.'s Lenox unit in the U.S.
When regulators seized Vernon, they found it owned 17th century castle doors and expensive art objects, including a Baccarat eagle and a silver-studded saddle.