croupier

Noun

croupier (plural croupiers)

1. The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
   • As a matter of fact, the mob was playing in exceedingly foul fashion. Indeed, I have an idea that sheer robbery was going on around that gaming-table. The croupiers who sat at the two ends of it had not only to watch the stakes, but also to calculate the game—an immense amount of work for two men!...1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/II)
   • Every time the little gate creaks—I'm in the shed with the tanks at the end of the garden—I wonder from which of my pasts the person is arriving, seeking me out even here: maybe it is only the past of yesterday and of this same suburb, the squat Arab garbage collector who in October begins his...1979, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
2. One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.