cinque
Example Sentences
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For a gammon, play two men only, from the point last mentioned to the cinque point in your own table.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis
Trieze is their favourite game: uno, due, tre, quatro, cinque, fante, cavallo are eternally repeated; the apartments echoed no other sound.
From Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents by Beckford, William
Double Quatre.—Play two men from the ace to the cinque point in the adversary's inner table, and two from the five in his outer table.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis
The innuendoes of the Ugellino and the Nicchio are here repeated in figures which anticipate the novels and capitoli of the cinque cento.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
It adapts the pastoral form to that ideal of civility dependent upon culture, which took so strong a hold upon the imagination of the cinque cento.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
