cinque

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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 Symonds, John Addington

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)

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

Double Quatre.—Play two men from the ace to the cinque point in the adversary's inner table, and two from the five in his outer 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