cinque

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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

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)

Many a passer-by stops to look at the pretty sight, and the vendor's tongue is never still, "A quatto, a cinque, a sei a sordo, 'e purtualle 'e Palermo."

From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.

We find it in full energy, possessing the public theatres and claiming the attention of all classes, at the close of the cinque cento.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

Her assistant, a good-looking young man, in very white teeth and livery, sold some patent toothache drops: Solo cinque baiocchi il fiasco, S'gnore.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various