/om"beuhr/ , n.
1. a card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and played, usually by three persons, with 40 cards.
2. the player undertaking to win the pool in this game.
Also, hombre; esp. Brit., ombre .
[ 1650-60; h ) ombre hombre lit., man hominem, acc. of homo man. See HOMO ]