dominoes

Variant of domino

noun pl. dominoes or dominos

  1. a loose cloak or robe with wide sleeves and hood, worn with a mask at masquerades
  2. a small mask, generally black, for the eyes; half mask
  3. a person dressed in such a cloak or mask
  4. 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
  5. 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

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