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Ombre
//ˈɒm.bə// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10. uncountable
"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"
- 2 A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa. archaic
- 3 Alternative spelling of ombré (“a gradual blending of one color hue to another”). alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Etymology
Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human.
See also for "ombre"
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