tierce

Etymology
From, from.

Pronunciation

 * (card)
 * (card)
 * (card)
 * (card)

Noun

 * 1)  A third.
 * : the third canonical hour or its service.
 * 1)  A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
 * 2)  The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
 * 3)  A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
 * 4)  The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
 * 5)  An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
 * 6)  One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)
 * 1)  The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
 * 2)  An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
 * 3)  One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)
 * 1)  One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)

Translations

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Etymology
,, from.

Noun

 * 1)  third
 * 2) terce

Usage notes

 * Unlike Modern French, it is attested with masculine nouns as well as feminine ones.