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

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 Louis Hoffmann

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

From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Charles James Lever

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

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.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann

He developed a quite considerable acquaintance with the plays of William Shakespeare, and in his dreams he wore cinque cento or Elizabethan clothes, and walked about a stormy, ruffling, taverning, teeming world.

From The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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