cinque
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It was a beautiful cinque cento jewel in white and blue enamel, with a high gold top containing a pointed ruby.
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
I have been calculating"—Mr. Buzzacott turned his pale green eyes towards his guest—"that I may be able to afford that pretty little cinque cassone, after all.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
When they were conjured up, otherwise coupled, they were called either sice cinque, sice quatre, sice trey, sice deuce, and sice ace; or cinque quatre, cinque trey, and so forth.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Trieze is their favourite game: uno, due, tre, quatro, cinque, fante, cavallo are eternally repeated; the apartments echoed no other sound.
From Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents by William Beckford
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 Arthur H. Norway
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