cinque

[ singk ]

noun

1. the five at dice, cards, etc.

cinque

/ sɪŋk /

noun

1. the number five in cards, dice, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of cinque¹

1350–1400; Middle English cink < Old French cinq < Vulgar Latin *cinque, for Latin quīnque five

Word History and Origins

Origin of cinque¹

C14: from Old French cinq five

Example Sentences

Trois Deuce.—The approved play is to carry two men from the five in your adversary's outer table to the quatre and cinque points in your own outer table.

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I have been calculating"—Mr. Buzzacott turned his pale green eyes towards his guest—"that I may be able to afford that pretty little cinque cassone, after all.

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We find it in full energy, possessing the public theatres and claiming the attention of all classes, at the close of the cinque cento.

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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.

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Here we are in the tenth century, and this group is cinque cento.

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