cinque

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Cinque Ace.—Play the cinque from the five men in your adversary's outer table, and the ace from the ace point in his inner table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

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 Ruskin, John

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

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

Black, red, or blue, the colors view, Une, deux, cinque, 'tis beginning, Then make your game, The color name, While round the ball is spinning.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison