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–noun
1.a card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and played, usually by three persons, with 40 cards.
2.the player undertaking to win the pool in this game.
Also, hombre; especially British, ombre.

[Origin: 1650–60; < F (h)ombre < Sp hombre lit., man < L hominem, acc. of homō man. See Homo]
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om·bre also om·ber    Audio Help   (ŏm'bər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A card game, played by three players with 40 cards, that was popular in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.


[Spanish hombre, man, ombre, from Latin homō, homin-, man; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.]

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