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sombrous

[ som-bruhs ]

adjective

, Archaic.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sombrous1

1720–30; < French sombre somber + -ous

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Example Sentences

I would willingly remain behind these “sombrous walls” for the rest of my life for this chance.

So he took his leave and returned home again; but his thoughts were sad and sombrous because of the refusal he had met with.

Time's sombrous tints have every view o'erspread, And thou too, gay seducer, art thou fled?

A pale girl, with great large sombrous eyes and compressed lips, meets him, and places her hand in his without a word.

It was a sombre morning; a heavy greyness of sky painted the eternal forest tops of a sombrous mourning colour.

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