downcome
Americannoun
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a downcomer.
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Archaic. descent or downfall; comedown; humiliation.
noun
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archaic downfall
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another name for downcomer
Etymology
Origin of downcome
Example Sentences
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But little cause have I to speak, for I too am a downcome.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
It was a sair downcome fra them to the Glasgo' pavements.
From Scottish sketches by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
It was a downcome, though, for a man who had been proud of driving behind his own horseflesh to pack in among a crowd of the Barbie sprats.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
My ain grandfather, who was the son of a great farmer, hired himsell for a shepherd at that time to young Tam Linton; and mony ane was wae for the downcome.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
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
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