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- noun A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons.
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- noun Alternative form of
ombre .
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Examples
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It is the age of omber, of sonnets to Chloe's false ringlets, of odes to red heels and epics to lap dogs, of tinseled struttings in gilded drawing-rooms.
Journeys to Bagdad 1906
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Pope was the Homer of the drawing-room, the boudoir, the tea-urn, the omber-party, the sedan-chair, the parrot cage, and the lap-dogs.
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Hedin was no unwelcome guest in the houses of gentlefolks, and he was often seen at the judge's and the pastor's omber parties.
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Hedin was no unwelcome guest in the houses of gentlefolks, and he was often seen at the judge's and the pastor's omber parties.
Tales from Two Hemispheres Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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Positing, as above, too males pooles, the one the pictor of the other and the omber the Skotia of the one, and looking want-ingly around our undistributed middle between males we feel we must waistfully woent a female to focus and on this stage there pleasantly appears the cowrymaid M. whom we shall often meet below who introduces herself upon us at some precise hour which we shall again agree to call absolute zero or the babbling pumpt of platinism.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"'Then you'd better stop whispering like some Dago conspirator and finish your pudding like a good little wife, Mrs Beauchamp Comber, and smile ever so sweetly at Mr (' omber, and insist on cutting his cigar for him ... why, thank'ee, my dear!
THE NUMBERS 2010
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"'Then you'd better stop whispering like some Dago conspirator and finish your pudding like a good little wife, Mrs Beauchamp Comber, and smile ever so sweetly at Mr (' omber, and insist on cutting his cigar for him … why, thank'ee, my dear!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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"'Then you'd better stop whispering like some Dago conspirator and finish your pudding like a good little wife, Mrs Beauchamp Comber, and smile ever so sweetly at Mr (' omber, and insist on cutting his cigar for him ... why, thank'ee, my dear!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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