ombre

Definitions


[ˈɒmbə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a trick-taking card game for three people using a pack of forty cards, popular in Europe in the 17th–18th centuries


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Origin:
from Spanish hombre ‘man’, with reference to one player seeking to win the pool


[ˈɒmbreɪ], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- having tones of colour that shade into each other, graduating from light to dark
(e.g: a blue and white ombré silk shift)


Phrases:

Origin:
French, past participle of ombrer ‘to shade’




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