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dom·i·no2    Audio Help   [dom-uh-noh] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -noes, -nos.
1.a large, hooded cloak with a mask covering the eyes, worn at masquerades.
2.the mask.
3.a person wearing such dress.
[Origin: 1710–20; < It: hood and mask costume < ML or MF: black hood worn by priests in winter; obscurely akin to L dominus lord]
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dom·i·no 1    Audio Help   (dŏm'ə-nō')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. dom·i·noes or dom·i·nos
    1. A small rectangular wood or plastic block, the face of which is divided into halves, each half being blank or marked by dots resembling those on dice.
    2. dominoes or dominos (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A game played with a set of these small blocks, generally 28 in number.
  2. A country expected to react politically to events as predicted by the domino theory: "The dominos did indeed fall in Indochina" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)


[French, probably from domino, mask, perhaps because of the resemblance between the eyeholes and the spots on some of the tiles; see domino2.]

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dom·i·no 2    Audio Help   (dŏm'ə-nō')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. dom·i·noes or dom·i·nos
    1. A costume consisting of a hooded robe worn with an eye mask at a masquerade.
    2. The mask so worn.
  2. One wearing this costume.


[French, probably from Latin (benedīcāmus) dominō, (let us praise) the Lord, dative of dominus, lord; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]

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dominos

noun
any of several games played with small rectangular blocks [syn: dominoes] 

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