Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fan-tan \Fan"-tan`\, n. [Chinese (of Canton) in an-tan-kun
   gambling house.]
   1. A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small
      objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cap, and
      the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the
      sum of the counters is divided by four.

   2. A game with playing cards in which the cards are played in
      sequences upon the table, the one who first gets rid of
      his cards being the winner.