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

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)

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.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

For a gammon, play the ace from the six to the cinque point in your own table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

All down the table went the words "soldi," "lire," "lire sterline," "biglietti da cinque," "biglietti da dieci."

From The Call of the Blood by Lowell, Orson