cinque

American  

[singk] / sɪŋk /

noun

1. the five at dice, cards, etc.

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cinque British  

/ sɪŋk /

noun

1. the number five in cards, dice, etc

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Etymology

Origin of cinque

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

Example Sentences

They are lightly traced in much of the cinque cento sculpture; very boldly and grandly in the strange Last Judgment in the porch of St. Maclou at Rouen, described in the “Seven Lamps.”

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

Now there is neither gambling nor hanging; but all day long loafers sit on the steps of the columns and discuss pronto and subito and cinque and all the other topics of Venetian conversation.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry

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

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

The general feeling, even where, as in the Italy of the quattro and cinque centi, everyone was a connoisseur, did not hold the artist to expression in his anatomy as the general Greek feeling did.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)