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cinque
[ singk ]
noun
- the five at dice, cards, etc.
cinque
/ ɪŋ /
noun
- the number five in cards, dice, etc
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cinque1
Example Sentences
Trois Deuce.—The approved play is to carry two men from the five in your adversary's outer table to the quatre and cinque points in your own outer table.
I have been calculating"—Mr. Buzzacott turned his pale green eyes towards his guest—"that I may be able to afford that pretty little cinque cassone, after all.
We find it in full energy, possessing the public theatres and claiming the attention of all classes, at the close of the cinque cento.
His diction, in like manner, judged by the standard of the cinque cento, is far from choice—loaded with Lombardisms, gaining energy and vividness at the expense of refinement and precision.
Here we are in the tenth century, and this group is cinque cento.
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