cinque

Example Sentences

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It adapts the pastoral form to that ideal of civility dependent upon culture, which took so strong a hold upon the imagination of the cinque cento.

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

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 Beckford, William

The more usual play is, for a hit, to play two to the cinque point in the player's own, and the other two to the quatre point in the adversary's table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

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

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