Comines

American  

[kaw-meen] / kɔˈmin /

Or Commines

noun

1. Philippe de 1445?–1511?, French historian and diplomat.

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Comines British  

/ kɔmin /

noun

1. Philippe de (filip də). ?1447–?1511, French diplomat and historian, noted for his Mémoires (1489–98)

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Example Sentences

Christophe Bourgois, 29, a builder, said it was worth his while to drive to the French border town of Halluin from his Belgian home town of Comines.

From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2022

It produced, indeed, no prose writer of great distinction, except Comines; but it witnessed serious, if not extremely successful, efforts at prose composition.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

On December 29, 1915, sixteen British aeroplanes attacked the Comines station with bombs, and hit the station railway and sheds in the vicinity.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

Before Comines, the French chronicle was little more than gossip, though it was often the gossip of genius.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

How much the fiction of Sir Walter Scott owes to Froissart, and to Philip de Comines after Froissart, those only can understand 27 who have read both the old chronicles and the modern romances.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver