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ombre
/ˈɒm.bə/
noun 3
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2ADJ.
advent'rous
ADV.
singly
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noun
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 com
When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.
noun
1
A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa.
noun
1
Alternative spelling of ombré (“a gradual blending of one color hue to another”).
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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
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When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.
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