DOMINO
\dˈɒmɪnˌə͡ʊ], \dˈɒmɪnˌəʊ], \d_ˈɒ_m_ɪ_n_ˌəʊ]\
Definitions of DOMINO
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
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A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
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A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
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A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
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A person wearing a domino.
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A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
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One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
By Oddity Software
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A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
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A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
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A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
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A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
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A person wearing a domino.
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A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
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One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
By Noah Webster.
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A loose silk cape or cloak with large sleeves and a hood, used as a masquerade garment; a dotted piece of bone or wood used for a game.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A cape with a hood worn by a master or by a priest: a long cloak of black silk, with a hood, used for disguise:-pl. DOMINOES (-noz), the name of a game, so called because the pieces are (partly) colored black.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A robe and hood, as worn at masquerades; also, the wearer.
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A game played with flat pieces marked like dice, each piece being also called a domino.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Italian and Spanish] A cape with a hood, formerly worn by priests;—a mourning veil worn by women;—a half-mask;—a long, loose cloak, with a hood, used as a disguise;—a person wearing a domino;—pl. A game played with twenty-eight pieces of ivory, &c. indented on the face with spots from a one to double-six;—one of the pieces with which the game is played.
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