Dominoes
['dɔminəuz]
Definition
(noun.) any of several games played with small rectangular blocks.
Typist: Maura--From WordNet
Definition
(pl. ) of Domino
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To dream of playing at dominoes, and lose, you will be affronted by a friend, and much uneasiness for your safety will be entertained by your people, as you will not be discreet in your affairs with women or other matters that engage your attention. If you are the winner of the game, it foretells that you will be much courted and admired by certain dissolute characters, bringing you selfish pleasures, but much distress to your relatives.
Typist: Martha
Examples
- Monday--Morning, dominoes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Afternoon, dominoes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Agnes played the piano to him, sat by him, and worked and talked, and played some games at dominoes with me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Ever touched the broom, or spread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Such was our daily life on board the ship--solemnity, decorum, dinner, dominoes, devotions, slander. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Afterwards, dominoes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Friday--Morning, dominoes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Lady Glyde--Miss Halcombe--Eleanor, my good wife--which of you will indulge me with a game at dominoes? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Saturday--Morning, dominoes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Whereupon, dominoes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Lying in bed all day and playing at dominoes, like poor Lord Plessy, would be more private and bearable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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