ombre

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈɒm.bə/
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/ˈɒm.bə/ · /ˈɒm.bɹeɪ/

Definition of ombre

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
    “Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites, / Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights, / At Ombre singly to decide their doom / And swells her breast with conquests yet to com”
    “When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
    “Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites, / Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights, / At Ombre singly to decide their doom / And swells her breast with conquests yet to com”
    “When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.”
  2. (archaic)A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa.
  3. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative spelling of ombré (“a gradual blending of one color hue to another”).

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Etymology

Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human.

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