Ombre may be played sometimes by two players, for lack of a third person.

Ombre is intended to make three tricks to win the stake.

The Ombre leads to the first trick and the other two must follow suit if possible.

Shall I hide myself in the ombre of your throat?"

Ombre is obliged to win five tricks, otherwise he loses.

In 1688 he withdrew from the stage, and became a gamester, an expert at ombre.

"Yet how did El Ombre judge the length of those lines?

If the game is won, Ombre then takes the content of the pot and is paid by each opponent.

Here she is invited to play a game of ombre, which game she wins.

Solo: Ombre announces trumps, but plays without discarding and drawing.

At last, El Ombre would meet his match.

Like most card games, Ombre is most often played for stakes, and the amount depends on how decisive the win.

Ombre is an ancestral form of Euchre.

Once we have his order, we can wait in the room until El Ombre returns."

They are in the keeping of El Ombre!"

She also likes crinkled silks in ombre or shaded colors that change their look as they catch the light.

El Ombre came from the hacienda.

Vuelta: Ombre turns the top card of the stock to determine trumps, discards and draws.

Ombre may take as many cards as he wants up to eight and the other player may take the rest.

Bidding may be for Ask Leave, when Ombre calls a king seeking for a partner.

El Ombre was gone.

He has met El Ombre!"

"El Ombre was not there," Maringuez heard one whisper.

"Only one could enter there, El Ombre.

There, I learn that El Ombre has been captured; that he is to die at dawn.