combe

or comb, coomb, coombe

[ koom, kohm ]
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nounBritish.
  1. a narrow valley or deep hollow, especially one enclosed on all but one side.

Origin of combe

1
Old English cumb valley <British Celtic; cf. cwm

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How to use combe in a sentence

  • Knowing the man and recognizing the mood, Coombes became silent, and this silence he did not break all the way to Vine Street.

    Dope | Sax Rohmer
  • Inspector Kerry brought his cane down with a crash upon the table, whereat Coombes started nervously.

    Dope | Sax Rohmer
  • This was the version of the story given by the ingenious Mr. Coombes, and in this version Grimaldi was an implicit believer.

    Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi | Joseph Grimaldi
  • This Billy Coombes, he is not come to the theatre to-day, and is not to be found at his lodgings, for we have sent a man there.

    Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi | Joseph Grimaldi
  • Coombes turned the tables on Campbell a few years later (in 1846), and for some years Coombes was held to be invincible.

    Boating | W. B. Woodgate

British Dictionary definitions for combe

combe

comb

/ (kuːm) /


noun
  1. variant spellings of coomb

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