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

For a gammon, play two men only, from the point last mentioned to the cinque point in your own table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

Double Quatre.—Play two men from the ace to the cinque point in the adversary's inner table, and two from the five in his outer table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

For a gammon, play the ace from the six to the cinque point in your own table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

Nay," said Shakespeare, "wooing, wedding, and repenting is, after all, but a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

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

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo