Ombre vs Omber - What's the difference?
ombre | omber |
A card game, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons; it involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
* Young
(archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish -- called also umbra, and umbrine.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between ombre and omber
is that ombre is a card game, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons; it involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10 while omber is alternative form of lang=en.ombre
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) hombre, from (etyl) hombre, literally, a man, from (etyl) (lena) homo. See human.Noun
(-)- (Alexander Pope)
- When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.
