domino

(däm′ə nō′)

a loose cloak or robe with wide sleeves and hood, worn with a mask at masquerades
a small mask, generally black, for the eyes; half mask
a person dressed in such a cloak or mask
Origin: Fr < Sp: in reference to the blackness of the piece
a small, oblong piece of wood, plastic, etc. marked into halves, each half being blank or having usually from one to six dots marked on it
a game played with a number of such pieces, usually 28, which the players must match according to the dots on each half

Origin: Fr & It, hooded cloak (worn by cathedral canons) < dat. of L dominus, a lord, master

Domino, Fats (born Antoine Domino, Jr.) 1928-; U.S. rock-and-roll pianist & composer

See domino in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. dom·i·noes or dom·i·nos

a. 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.
b. dominoes or dominos (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A game played with a set of these small blocks, generally 28 in number.
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.)

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , probably from domino, mask, perhaps because of the resemblance between the eyeholes and the spots on some of the tiles; see domino²

noun pl. dom·i·noes or dom·i·nos