downcome

American  

[doun-kuhm] / ˈdaʊnˌkʌm /

noun

1. a downcomer.

2. Archaic. descent or downfall; comedown; humiliation.

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downcome British  

/ ˈdaʊnˌkʌm /

noun

1. archaic downfall

2. another name for downcomer

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Etymology

Origin of downcome

First recorded in 1505–15; down ¹ + come

Example Sentences

John felt the humiliation of this downcome in a far keener way than David did.

From Scottish sketches by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

"Thou maun do without horse-sheet and surcingle now, lad," he said, addressing the animal; "you and me hae had a downcome alike; we had better hae fa'en i, the deepest pool o' Tarras."

From The Black Dwarf by Scott, Walter, Sir

It be held to be a sure sign that an ailing body will die if there be a downcome of soot.

From The Evolution of an English Town by Home, Gordon

Then was I very croose at the manner of our coming off, and minded not that the hardest blaff of downcome is ever gotten at the doorstep.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

At the downcome of darkness Up to the trenches Fared he forth, Sidni the Storeman.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917 by Various