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Word entry · 5 letters

ombre

Best crossword clue

"Gradient color effect"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒm.bə/Sorted bemorStarts with OEnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
1O2M3B4R5E

Definitions

  1. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people.

  2. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.

Word origin

Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Gradient color effect5 letters
02Gradual color shading5 letters

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