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Definition of Combes
1. combe [n] - See also: combe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Combes
Literary usage of Combes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"29 Juan Francisco combes was born at Zaragoza on October 5, 1620. At the age of
twelve he entered the Jesuit order as a novice, at Tarragona; ..."
2. Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries by Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1907)
"CHAPTER XVI THE combes. THE combes were not such old residents in the ...
The Warwickshire Visitation gives the pedigree of the combes of Ashley, co. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"... could make his way thither. and later by a French tutor named Mar- combes.
With him and his elder brother Francis he left England in October 1638, and, ..."
4. Publications by Surrey Parish Register Society (1904)
"2J5 Richard s. of Richard Smyth and Margaret his „ 25 Edward s. of Edward combes
and Johane his Wyf. 1593 April i Ann d. of Henry Gurney and Margaret his ..."
5. Forty Years of Paris by Walter F. Lonergan (1907)
"CHAPTER XVIII M. Emile combes at work—The Humbert hoax—M. Wai- ... But before M.
combes became President of the Council we had the Humbert hoax, ..."