cinque
Example Sentences
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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 Carlo Gozzi
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
Cinque Ace.—Play the cinque from the five men in your adversary's outer table, and the ace from the ace point in his inner table.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
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
Nay," said Shakespeare, "wooing, wedding, and repenting is, after all, but a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
