Comines
Americannoun
noun
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Christophe Bourgois, 29, a builder, said it was worth his while to drive to the French border town of Halluin from his Belgian home town of Comines.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2022
His minister and intimate friend, Comines, has left a faithful and judicious account of his life.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
The single duchy of Milan yielded to its masters seven hundred thousand golden florins of revenue, according to the computation of De Comines.
From New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds
Holinshed and all our historians call this a yearly tribute; but Comines, the French memoir-writer, with a national spirit, denies that these gifts were either pensions or tributes.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
Everywhere in Comines is evident, however, the anti-feudal and therefore anti-mediaeval conception of a centralised government instead of a loose assemblage of powerful vassals.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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