downcome

American  

[daun-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

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Example Sentences

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downcome

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 George Douglas Brown

Ay, ay—no doubt—no doubt," said the Bailie, briskly, "but we are all subject to a downcome, and it comes hard on those that have held their heads high.

From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott

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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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 J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

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 James Hogg

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