cinque

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The more usual play is, for a hit, to play two to the cinque point in the player's own, and the other two to the quatre point in the adversary's table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

In its details, however, the extravagancies of the middle ages, and the often elegant frivolities of the cinque cento period, have been avoided, and the breadth and simplicity of Greek models have still been followed.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 by Various

Many a passer-by stops to look at the pretty sight, and the vendor's tongue is never still, "A quatto, a cinque, a sei a sordo, 'e purtualle 'e Palermo."

From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.

It was a beautiful cinque cento jewel in white and blue enamel, with a high gold top containing a pointed ruby.

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew

One is the well-known dicing set, ace, deuce, tray, cater, cinque, size; thus size-ace is 6-1, cinques or sinks, double 5.

From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard