1. a trick-taking card game for three players, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
Usage: archaic; historical

Examples

• The ladies spent their afternoon playing omber in the drawing room.
• Omber was considered a fashionable pastime among the aristocracy.
• She learned the rules of omber from her grandmother’s old card manual.
• The novel described characters engaged in a heated game of omber.
• Omber required skill in both strategy and reading one’s opponents.