domino

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One wore a bright yellow cloak, the other domino was a quiet tan color.

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  1. noun 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. noun A game played with a set of these small blocks, generally 28 in number.
  3. noun 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.)

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  • Then, as her domino was inconvenient, she went into her room to put on a dressing-gown of wadded silk; and, secure of meeting no one, she wandered from room to room, continuing her examination, till at last, her light nearly exhausted, she returned to her bedroom, which was hung with embroidered blue satin She had seen everything, and admired everything: there only remained herself to be admired; and she thought, as she undressed before the long mirror, that she was not the object least worthy of admiration in the place. —  The Queen's Necklace
  • Not a black domino--no; he hated black--but a blue domino, trimmed with pink! —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
  • She is in an Italian costume with a large black shawl round her; he is in evening dress, and a black domino which is flying open Nora (_hanging back in the doorway, and struggling with him_). —  A Doll's House
  • One wore a bright yellow cloak, the other domino was a quiet tan color. —  Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times
  • Penini begged importunately for a domino, and could not be refused; and Penini's father and mother were for once drawn into the vortex of Italian gaiety. —  Robert Browning
 

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  1. French, probably from domino, mask, perhaps because of the resemblance between the eyeholes and the spots on some of the tiles; see domino2.
  2. 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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  1. = D. G. Danish Swedish domino = French domino = Spanish dominó = Portuguese Italian domino, masquerade dress, from Middle Latin domino (in sense 1), from L. dominus, lord, master, in Middle Latin a title common to ecclesiastics (see dominie); cf. Middle Latin dominicale, a kind of veil. The game is said to be so called from the black under surface or part of the pieces with which it is played.
 

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