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
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 RohmerInspector Kerry brought his cane down with a crash upon the table, whereat Coombes started nervously.
Dope | Sax RohmerThis 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 GrimaldiThis 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 GrimaldiCoombes 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
comb
/ (kuːm) /
variant spellings of coomb
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