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A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10. quotations examples
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
1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], canto
When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.
1725–1728, published 1741
plural ombres
(archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa
(colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark. examples