ombre
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of ombre
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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
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(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.”
- (archaic)A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa.
- (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative spelling of ombré (“a gradual blending of one color hue to another”).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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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