cinque

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Nay," said Shakespeare, "wooing, wedding, and repenting is, after all, but a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

Indies, called Las cinque Llagas, or The fiue wounds.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

Various insects, like everything else in the world, occur in cinque cento work; grasshoppers most frequently.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

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 Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

Nui al presento siamo cinque sociale comite come il vedi.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington