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Encyclopedia Britannica



RAFFLE

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 813 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RAFFLE , a
special
 
kind
  of lottery, in which a particular
article
  is put up as the prize, the winner being
drawn
  for by lot out of the number of those who have paid a fixed sum for
admission
  to the drawing; the
total
  amount realized by the sale of the tickets is supposed to approximate' to the value of the
object
  raffled for. The word appears in
English
  as early as Chaucer (The
Parson
 's Tale) where it is used in its
original
  sense of a game of dice, the winner being that one who threw three dice all alike, or, next, the highest pair. The Fr. mile. Med. Lat. raffla, was also used in the sense of a " sweeping-off " of the stakes in a game; it has been connected with Ger. raffen, to carry off.


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