Commines

American  

[kaw-meen] / kɔˈmin /

noun

1. Philippe de Comines, Philippe de.

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Commines British  

/ kɔmin /

noun

1. a variant spelling of (Philippe de) Comines

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Example Sentences

He came from Commines, which is north of Lille on the Belgian frontier, and he had worked all his life in a braces factory, for ten hours a day, six days a week, earning thirty to forty francs, which he considered good wages.

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He admitted that he had a passion for music, that he had learnt the harmonium from a blind man in Commines, and that he had had an accordion specially made for him in Belgium at a cost of 260 francs which had taken him years to save.

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I could proffer sympathy but not, alas! advice, and I hadn't the heart to tell him that Commines was in the thick of the fighting, and had probably been blown to pieces long ago.

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Commines, his historian, has said that habitually it consisted of a chancellor, a juge de l'h�tel,217 a private secretary, and a treasurer, each having under him various employees.

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Louis endowed the church at Cl�ry, and the edifice was built in the fine flamboyant style of the period, just previous to his death, which De Commines gives as "le samedy p�nulti�me jour d'Aoust, l'an mil quatre cens quatre-vingtz et trois, � huit heures du soir."

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