cinque
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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
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
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 William Harrison Ainsworth
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
Six Deuce.—Move a man from the five in your adversary's outer table to the cinque point in your own table.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
