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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"Pride will have a downcome," said some, with a gleg look and a smack of the lip, trying to veil their personal malevolence in a common proverb.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
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
Besides Jamie might not like it; and for many other reasons, the little downcome would press hardest upon Christina.
From A Knight of the Nets by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
"God!" he said, "what a downcome for that hoose!"
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
It's just more bad luck than anything else that you should have gone to the expense of setting up in style in a lord's castle and then having this downcome.
From Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)
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