Definitions for ombre
om·bre

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1. ombrenoun

   A card game, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons.

2. ombrenoun

   A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.

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1. Ombrenoun

   A game of cards played by three.

   Etymology: hombre, Spanish.

   He would willingly carry her to the play; but she had rather go to lady Centaure’s and play at ombre. Tatler.

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1. Ombre

   Ombre (from Spanish hombre 'man', pronounced "omber") or l'Hombre is a fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game for three players and "the most successful card game ever invented."Its history began in Spain around the end of the 16th century as a four-person game. It is one of the earliest card games known in Europe and by far the most classic game of its type, directly ancestral to Euchre, Boston and Solo Whist. Despite its difficult rules, complicated point score and strange foreign terms, it swept Europe in the last quarter of the 17th century, becoming Lomber in Germany, Lumbur in Austria and Ombre (originally pronounced 'umber') in England, occupying a position of prestige similar to contract bridge today. Ombre eventually developed into a whole family of related games such as the four-hand Quadrille, three-hand Tritrille, five-hand Quintille and six-hand Sextille, as well as German Solo, Austrian Préférence and Swedish Vira, itself "one of the most complex card games ever devised." Other games borrowed features from Ombre such as bidding; for example, the gambling game of Bête, formerly known as Homme, and the tarot game of Taroc l'Hombre.

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1. Ombre

   Ombre is a fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game for three players. Its history began in Spain around the end of the 16th Century as a four person game. It is one of the earliest card games known in Europe and by far the most classic game of its type, directly ancestral to Euchre, Boston and Solo Whist. Despite its difficult rules, complicated point score and strange foreign terms, it swept Europe in the last quarter of the 17th century, becoming Lomber in Germany, Lumbur in Austria and Ombre in England, occupying a position of prestige similar to contract bridge today.

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1. Ombre

   om′bėr, n. a game of cards played with a pack of forty cards, usually by three persons. [Fr.,—Sp. hombre—L. homo, a man.]

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1. ombre

   A fish, more commonly called grayling, or umber.

How to pronounce ombre?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ombre in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ombre in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ombre in a Sentence

1. Charles de LEUSSE:

   The great men walk on their shadow: They anticipate the future. (Les grands hommes marchent sur leur ombre : Ils anticipent l’ avenir)

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