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

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Example Sentences

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cinque

Various insects, like everything else in the world, occur in cinque cento work; grasshoppers most frequently.

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

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.

From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley

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 Peter Anthony Motteux

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

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 William Beckford

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