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domino|ˈdɒmɪnəʊ|
Pl. dominoes.
[a. F. domino (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) ‘a kind of hood, or habit for the head, worne by Cannons; (and hence) also, a fashion of vaile vsed by some women that mourne’ (Cotgr.): cf. Sp. domino a masquerade garment.
Du Cange cites domino in L. context, in the sense of a covering of the head and shoulders worn by priests in winter: ‘utantur..caputio vulgariter ung Domino’, ‘caputium seu Domino panni nigri’. Derived in some way from L. dominus; Darmesteter suggests from some L. phrase, such as benedicamus Domino. According to Littré, sense 3 came from the supposed resemblance of the black back of each of the pieces to the masquerade garment.]
1. a. A kind of loose cloak, app. of Venetian origin, chiefly worn at masquerades, with a small mask covering the upper part of the face, by persons not personating a character.
1719Free-Thinker No. 138 ⁋6 Thersites..instead of covering Himself with a Domine, dresses..in the Habit of a Running Foot-man. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Domino..the habit of a Venetian nobleman, very much in use at our modern masquerades. 1744Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to W. Montagu 25 Mar., I went in a domino to the ball, a masque giving opportunity of talking in a freer manner than [etc.]. 1770F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 66 Miss Strange had a white satin Domino trimmed with blue. 1841Lever C. O'Malley (Rtldg.) 407 The domino which serves for mere concealment, is almost the only dress assumed.
b. Sometimes applied to the half-mask itself.
[1837Syd. Smith Ballot Wks. (Longm.) 778 Why not vote in a domino, taking off the vizor to the returning officer only?] 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Illusions Wks. (Bohn) II. 442 The masquerade is at its height. Nobody drops his domino.
c. fig.
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 266/1 Reserve..is a bad domino which only hides what good, people have about 'em, without making the bad look better. 1870Disraeli Lothair lxxvii, As for Pantheism, it is Atheism in domino. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig. Wks. (Bohn) III. 221 John Wilson—who..writes better under the domino of ‘Christopher North’.
2. A person wearing a domino.
1749Fielding Tom Jones xiii. vii, Jones..applied to the Domino, begging and intreating her to shew him the lady. 1866Howells Venet. Life viii, Motley company,—dominoes, harlequins, pantaloni, illustrissimi and illustrissime.
3. a. One of a number of rectangular pieces (usually 28) of ivory, bone, or wood, having the under side black, and the upper equally divided by a cross line into two squares, each either blank or marked with pips, so as to present all the possible combinations from double blank to double six. (Sometimes the pieces have more pips, and are more in number accordingly.) b. pl. (rarely sing.) A game played with these pieces, (usually) by placing corresponding ends in contact as long as this can be done, the player who has the lowest number of pips remaining being the winner.
1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. ii. §18 Domino..a very childish sport, imported from France a few years back. 1831Disraeli Yng. Duke v. i. (L.), The menservants were initiated in the mysteries of dominoes. 1835Longfellow Outre-Mer Prose Wks. 1886 I. 119 His favorite game of domino. 1870Modern Hoyle 92 One of the players draws a domino.
c. pl. A game at cards, in which the cards as played out are laid in rows or heaps according to the suits, those of each suit following in their order; the player who first gets rid of all his cards is the winner.
d. interjectionally: (see quots.). Also subst. (see quot. 1873); it is domino (with), it is all up (with), it is the end (of), it is finished (for). slang.
1862B. Brierley Tales & Sk. Lancs. Life 26 What dost think abeawt Sebastypol bein' takken?.. Aw'll bet thi a quart o'ale ut it's domino wi' it neaw. 1864Hotten Slang Dict. (ed. 3) 123 Domino, a common ejaculation of soldiers and sailors when they receive the last lash of a flogging. 1873Ibid. (ed. 4) 147 A domino means either a blow, or the last of a series of things, whether pleasant or otherwise. 1882N. & Q. 25 Mar. 229/2 Probably most Londoners have often heard 'bus conductors cry ‘Domino’ when an omnibus is ‘full in and out’. 1891Farmer Slang, Domino, an ejaculation of completion: e.g. for sailors and soldiers at the last lash of a flogging: also, by implication, a knock-down blow, or the last of a series. From the call at the end of a game of dominoes. 1894J. T. Clegg David's Loom xxi. 245 It'll be domino for me neaw. 1898Daily News 10 Feb. 7/5 The young delinquent sullenly declared that James struck him first, whereupon he ‘gave him domino for himself’. 1911A. Bennett Hilda Lessways v. ii. 330 I've..paid the cheque! So it's domino, now! 1927Chambers's Jrnl. 45/1, I thought it was domino with me and my little schemes.
e. pl. The teeth. slang.
1828W. T. Moncrieff Tom & Jerry ii. v. 53 Sluice your dominos—vill you?.. Drink, vill you? don't you understand Hinglish? 1857A. Mathews Tea-Table Talk II. 122 The poor destitute gentleman was still diligently seeking his lost dominos. 1913Pedagogical Seminary XX. 436 To drink is to sluice the dominoes.
f. In full domino paper. Paper printed with a design from a wood-block and coloured, used as wallpaper, etc. (see quots.). (Cf. Fr. domino, papier dominoté.) Also ‖ dominotier, a maker of such paper.
1839W. A. Chatto Treat. Wood Engraving ii. 59 In France the same kind of cuts [sc. wood-cuts], probably stencil-coloured, were called ‘dominos’... The word ‘domino’ was subsequently used as a name for coloured or marbled paper generally, and the makers of such paper..were called ‘dominotiers’. 1924N. McClelland Hist. Wall-papers 20 The industry which gave the Dominotiers their name was the making of ‘domino papers’, which consisted principally of marbleized papers and again of others with little figures and grotesques, crudely printed from wood-blocks and coloured by hand. These ‘dominos’ were made in Rouen and in other cities..of France. 1926Sugden & Edmondson Hist. Eng. Wallpaper 27 In France, ‘domino’ papers are regarded as the real forbears of paper-hangings. Ibid. 28 ‘Domino’ papers were usually small—16½ in. by 12½ in.—and all the earliest were ‘marbled’.
g. pl. The keys of a piano (see also quot. 1889). slang.
1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 303/1 Domino thumper (theatrical), a pianist. 1891Farmer Slang II. 306/1 Dominoes,..the keys of a piano. 1895J. T. Clegg Works I. 169 Aw con play ‘God save the Queen’ wi two fingers, iv aw happen to catch th' reet dominoes to start off.
h. to make (the) domino: to go out at the game of dominoes; also fig., to anticipate the end; to finish first.
1890‘Berkeley’ Dominoes & Solitaire 11 Sometimes each hand constitutes a game in itself; and when this is so, the player who makes ‘domino’ wins. 1892C. Santley Student & Singer (ed. 3) ii. 24, I did not notice the bar's rest before the ‘Amen’, and performed a solo, which called forth some witty remark from Benedict about the future career of the singer who made the ‘domino’. 1912‘Jar’ Dominoes 3 A player, when he has played all the dominoes from his hand, is said to ‘make domino’.
i. Mus. An error in performance (cf. quot. 1892 for sense 3 h). colloq.
1946Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 50 One can get away with a ‘domino’ once—even thrice, but then someone starts to say: ‘Poor Blank, he is beginning to slip.’.
j. fig. Used of a theory that a political event or development in one country, etc., will lead to its occurrence in others; also transf.; more freq. attrib.
1954D. D. Eisenhower in N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 18/1 You had broader considerations that might follow what you might call the ‘falling domino’ principle. You had a row of dominoes set up, and you knocked over the first one, and what would happen to the last one was the certainty that it would go over very quickly. 1965New Statesman 19 Feb. 277/1 There was as much domino talk (‘With the collapse of South Vietnam, Laos..would speedily be swallowed..’) then as now. Ibid. 277/2 Even if..the domino theory works out in practice. 1965Guardian 16 Dec. 9/7 The domino phenomenon{ddd}if one African country pulls out of the Commonwealth then..there is a very real possibility the others will go out in succession like dominoes. 1966Ibid. 6 Sept. 8/4 The departure of Zambia would not be a freak exception, but the fall of the first domino. Tanzania would follow forthwith. 1971Times 3 May 12/3 There is a ‘domino theory’ about the possible relaxation of drug abuse legislation in Europe and North America... By the ‘domino theory’, once a lead has been given, others may be encouraged.
4. A workman's ticket or ‘check’ given up on entering a factory.
1884Leisure Hour Sept. 530/1 Every man is provided with a number stamped on a small block of wood called a domino.
5. attrib., as domino-box; domino pool, a variety of the game of dominoes, in which a stake is placed in the pool (Mod. Hoyle, 1870, 101).
1849Lytton Caxtons 19 A beautiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt.
Hence ˈdominoed a., wearing a domino.
1885B. Harte Maruja iii, Groups of dominoed masqueraders. 1891Blackw. Mag. Jan. 46. |