combe
or comb, coomb, coombe
a narrow valley or deep hollow, especially one enclosed on all but one side.
Origin of combe
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How to use combe in a sentence
Could any of your glebes and combes and all the rest of it produce so fragrant an idea?
The Napoleon of Notting Hill | Gilbert K. ChestertonM. Combes is a sectary, a renegade seminarist given over to Freemasonry.
The War Upon Religion | Rev. Francis A. CunninghamWhether the vocation of Emile Combes was real or not, he certainly abandoned it in the midst of his ecclesiastical studies.
The War Upon Religion | Rev. Francis A. CunninghamIndeed, one can hardly restrain his tears as he reads the sorrowful complaints of Combes, Briand, Clemenceau and the others.
The War Upon Religion | Rev. Francis A. CunninghamWhile M. Combes would cast the blame on the liquidators, M. Briand fixed it on the method of liquidation.
The War Upon Religion | Rev. Francis A. Cunningham
British Dictionary definitions for combe
comb
/ (kuːm) /
variant spellings of coomb
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