Crossword clues for triomphe
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Triomphe (French for triumph) is a card game dating from the late 15th century. It most likely originated in France or Spain (as triunfo) and later spread to the rest of Europe. When the game arrived in Italy, it shared a similar name with the pre-existing game and deck known as trionfi ( tarot). While trionfi has a fifth suit that acts as permanent trumps, triomphe randomly selects one of the existing four suits as trumps. Triomphe became so popular that during the 16th century the earlier game of trionfi was gradually renamed tarocchi, tarot, or tarock. This game is the origin of the English word "trump" and is the ancestor of many trick-taking games like Euchre (via Écarté) and Whist (via Ruff and Honours).
Usage examples of "triomphe".
By that time they were driving up the Champs Elysees, toward the Arc de Triomphe.
The Arc de Triomphe falls with a ripping, splintering crash, reveals the Lesbian standing on a pedestal clad only in a leopard-skin jockstrap with enormous falsie basket.
At a guess, thought January-as he and Gosport, Nathan, and Mohammed dug the grave-Thierry was going to be on Mon Triomphe til judgment Day.
It was with Marie Therese that she had gone to the Louvre for the first time to see the Mona Lisa and other great paintings, together they had gone up the Eiffel Tower to view Paris from on high, and, as the young nanny had explained, for her to see how the Arc de Triomphe resembled the hub of a giant wheel, with the great avenues and boulevards designed by Baron Haussmann stretching out from it like long spokes.
What had been the city's heart was one vast pyre, and the pillars of smoke made a beacon for the Versaillais troops to aim at, as they advanced now on both sides of the Seine, that day pushing as far as the Arc de Triomphe on the Right Bank, the Invalides on the Left.
Uninvited, he had adjusted his steps to theirs, accompanying them toward the Arc de Triomphe.
She straightened up with her hands hanging limply by her sides, looking at the wall where an old photograph of the Arc de Triomphe was hung.
He had been at the Arc de Triomphe that morning, and at Notre Dame and at Montvalerien.
From his Paris office he could get a glimpse of the Place de l'Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe.
If his horses won the Derby, the Arc de Triomphe, the Washington International, no one was surprised.
Off in the direction of Paris, Nicole could see the familiar shape of the Arc de Triomphe rising from the surface of the model.
Fingers of light illuminated the Arc de Triomphe, rising from the fulcrum of the Place de 1'Etoile, nexus of a dozen major avenues, radiating like the veins on the back of a hand.