Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rouge-et-noir, the square (marked ‘couleur’) in which the banker pays all bets when the first card dealt for red or black is the same color as the winning color.
- noun In the game of solo, a name for any selected suit of cards, bids in which are of twice as much value as in any other suit.
- noun In the game of ombre, a suit composed of spades.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as
couler de rose , color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate. - noun A suit of cards, as hearts or clubs; -- used in some French games.
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Examples
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Ces trois bandes visuelles ont chacune leur propre graphisme et couleur.
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Ces trois bandes visuelles ont chacune leur propre graphisme et couleur.
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French colonies have used gens de couleur liberes to speak of emancipated black people.
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… On est tous devenu des wasp même si la différenciation de la couleur de peau reste vivace.
Global Voices in English » Obama’s Ghana Speech Underwhelms 2009
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In addition, free gens de couleur in Haiti were running their own armies.
Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil? 2010
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Ces trois bandes visuelles ont chacune leur propre graphisme et couleur.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Then to complete, et le complement couleur -- voila! un peu vert, just a touch of a green plant just below the tiles of the roof.
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Ces trois bandes visuelles ont chacune leur propre graphisme et couleur.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Ces trois bandes visuelles ont chacune leur propre graphisme et couleur.
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Delaunay's bright, geometric gouache, watercolor and black crayon "Rythme couleur, Paris" (1966) is estimated at £20,000-£30,000; carrying the same estimate will be Otto Freundlich's cheerful pastel "Cosmic Rainbow" (1922).
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