cinque
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By the best sculptors it is always used with this symbolic meaning, by the cinque cento sculptors as an ornament merely.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
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 John Addington Symonds
The general feeling, even where, as in the Italy of the quattro and cinque centi, everyone was a connoisseur, did not hold the artist to expression in his anatomy as the general Greek feeling did.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
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 Louis Hoffmann
If, my Lord Warden? nay, then I charge you, That all the cinque Ports, whereof you are chief, Be laid forthwith, that he escape us not.
From Sir John Oldcastle by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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