cinque
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This latter then proclaims it—'Prima-estratta, numero venti cinque.'
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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 Levi Leonard Conant
His diction, in like manner, judged by the standard of the cinque cento, is far from choice—loaded with Lombardisms, gaining energy and vividness at the expense of refinement and precision.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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 Louis Hoffmann
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 John Ruskin
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