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ombre

/ˈɒm.bə/

ombre noun: a Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10. Also the alternative spelling of ombré.

Noun (1)

ombre (uncountable)

  1. 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 com1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto
    • When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published...

Noun (2)

ombre (plural ombres)

  1. (archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa.
    Synonyms:
    umbra, umbrine, drum, drumfish, shi drum, gurbell, sea crow, bearded umbrine, corb

Also used as

ombre is also the alternative spelling of ombré.

Synonyms of ombre

Forms of ombre

alternative USomber
pluralombres

Origin of ombre

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

From French ombre (“Type of fish”).

From French ombré (“shaded”).

Questions about ombre

What does ombre mean?
Ombre means a Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
What part of speech is ombre?
Ombre is a noun.
How do you pronounce ombre?
Ombre is pronounced /ˈɒm.bə/.
What is the plural of ombre?
The plural of ombre is ombres.

Words near ombre in the dictionary

  1. Ombersley
  2. ombiasy
  3. ombibulous
  4. ombitasvir
  5. ombliferous
  6. ombre
  7. ombrella
  8. ombrellas
  9. ombres
  10. ombres chinoises
  11. ombrifuge

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