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Domino   /dˈɑmənˌoʊ/  /dˈɑmɪnˌoʊ/   Listen
noun
Domino  n.  (pl. dominos or dominoes)  
1.
A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
2.
A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
3.
A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
4.
A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
5.
A person wearing a domino.
6.
pl. A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
7.
One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
fall like dominoes. To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times. Note: The phrase is derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.






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"Domino" Quotes from Famous Books



... ancient and compact: a domino of tiled houses and walled gardens, dwarfed by the disproportionate bigness of the church. From the midst of the thoroughfare which divided it in half, fields and trees were visible at either end; and through the sally-port of every street, ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... of taste and the intense concentration on self, which were shown most disagreeably in Elle et Lui, appear on a different side in another book which is not a novel at all—not even a novel as far as masque and domino are concerned,—though indirectly it touches another of George Sand's curious personal experiences—that with Chopin. Un Hiver a Majorque is perhaps the most ill-tempered book of travel, except Smollett's ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... Poloniensis obiit: natus anno 1530 die 13 Januarii, hora quarta mane min. 26, in Transylvania. Obiit, hora secunda post mediam noctem, ut intellexi ex literis D{ni} Lasky, receptis die 29 per Alexandrum. Dec. 19th, 19die (novi kalendarii) ad gratificandum Domino Edouardo Garlando, et Francisco suo fratri, qui Edouardus nuncius mihi missus erat ab Imperatore Moschovi ut ad illum venirem, E. K. fecit proleolem lapidis in proportione unius ...... gravi aren super quod vulgaris oz. et et producta est optimi auri oz. fere: quod aurum post distribuimus ...
— The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee - And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts • John Dee

... facit ergo Romanus episcopus? qui, super mortuorum hominum, Petri & Pauli, secundum nos, ossa veneranda ... offeri Domino sacrificia, et tumulos eorum, Christi arbitratur altaria. Jerom. tom. ii. advers. ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon

... blocks of miners' dwellings, two rows of three, like the dots on a blank-six domino, and twelve houses in a block. This double row of dwellings sat at the foot of the rather sharp slope from Bestwood, and looked out, from the attic windows at least, on the slow climb of the ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence


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