Cinques [noun]

The Cinque Ports held almost a monopoly of the commerce of the Channel.

This, then, the reader must always keep in mind when he is examining for himself any examples of cinque-cento work.

By the best sculptors it is always used with this symbolic meaning, by the cinque cento sculptors as an ornament merely.

Various insects, like everything else in the world, occur in cinque cento work; grasshoppers most frequently.

He was anxious to open up communications with his allies in the Cinque Ports.

As the tide in old days reached thither, it ranked as a Cinque Port.

Dover, papa reminded us, is one of the original Cinque Ports, so called from their number—five.

Thirteen sail would to some seem ominous; but evidently the Cinque Ports folk were not superstitious.

In the records of the Cinque Ports which still exist there is enough material for a score of romances.

The latter has by far the more attractive history, as should naturally follow the distinction of being a limb of the Cinque Ports.