cinque

Example Sentences

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For a gammon, play the ace from the six to the cinque point in your own table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

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 Lang, Andrew

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

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.

Indies, called Las cinque Llagas, or The fiue wounds.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard