cinque

Gaming term, five

Cinque is the number five, especially on dice or playing cards.

The word is French and appears mainly in games: I rolled a cinque.

It survives in a few fixed expressions, most notably Cinque Ports, a historic group of English coastal towns.

numeral

five

Four plus one

fifth · fivefold · cinquain · fiver · quintuplet · pentagon · pentagram · cinquefoil · lustrum · pentathlon

heraldry

cinquefoil

Five-lobed plant or motif

escutcheon · argent · rose · arms · crest · shield · emblem · tincture · field · device

ports

Dover

Delaware's capital city

confederation · medieval · England · coastal · harbor · charter · maritime · Kent · Sussex · warden

dice

throw

Propel by arm motion

  • rollList of names
  • pipFruit seed or dot
  • dieStop being alive

spot · backgammon · craps · gambling · toss · gaming · chance · cast · doubles · point

Family

quintet, quintuple, quinquennial

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