cinque

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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

One is the well-known dicing set, ace, deuce, tray, cater, cinque, size; thus size-ace is 6-1, cinques or sinks, double 5.

From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard

The innuendoes of the Ugellino and the Nicchio are here repeated in figures which anticipate the novels and capitoli of the cinque cento.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

All down the table went the words "soldi," "lire," "lire sterline," "biglietti da cinque," "biglietti da dieci."

From The Call of the Blood by Lowell, Orson

His diction, in like manner, judged by the standard of the cinque cento, is far from choice—loaded with Lombardisms, gaining energy and vividness at the expense of refinement and precision.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington