cinque

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Various insects, like everything else in the world, occur in cinque cento work; grasshoppers most frequently.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

In Italy a form goes:— Pan uno, pan duo, Pan tre, pan quattro, Pan cinque, pan sei, Pan sette, pan otto, Pancotto!

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert

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

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

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 Motteux, Peter Anthony