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ombre

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om·bre also om·ber  (mbr) or hom·bre (hmbr, m-)
n.
A card game, played by three players with 40 cards, that was popular in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.

[Spanish hombre, man, ombre, from Latin hom, homin-, man; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.]

ombre US, omber [ˈɒmbə]
n
(Group Games / Card Games) an 18th-century card game
[from Spanish hombre man, referring to the player who attempts to win the stakes]


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It was there that Egalite Orleans roasted partridges on the night when he and the Marquis of Steyne won a hundred thousand from a great personage at ombre.
It was all mere surface sound, this murmur of their welcome, this popping of their corks - just as his gestures of response were the extravagant shadows, emphatic in proportion as they meant little, of some game of OMBRES CHINOISES.
 
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