cinque

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They are lightly traced in much of the cinque cento sculpture; very boldly and grandly in the strange Last Judgment in the porch of St. Maclou at Rouen, described in the “Seven Lamps.”

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

His open hands had won for this remarkable tenor the nickname, Cinque e cinque fanno dieci!

From My Recollections by Massenet, Jules

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

He developed a quite considerable acquaintance with the plays of William Shakespeare, and in his dreams he wore cinque cento or Elizabethan clothes, and walked about a stormy, ruffling, taverning, teeming world.

From The History of Mr. Polly by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)