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adjective

Sombre, Somber adj.

Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.

Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections. "The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short."

noun

Sombre, Somber n. Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. (Obs.)

verb

Sombre, Somber v. t. To make somber, or dark; to make shady. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Sombre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sombre" Quotes from Famous Books

... appear to hear the heart-break in his voice; she stood like one wrapped in sombre thought; no blaze, no tear, nothing in her eyes; no hardness, no tenderness about her mouth. The wind was blowing her cloak aside, and the only visible human life in her whole body was once when he spoke the muscles of her brown ...

— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson

... or so before daybreak I lay down on some dead fern at the foot of a huge and sombre red mahogany tree, where the track forked. It was partly that I wanted a rest, and partly that I was uncertain which track led to the township of Milton, where I purposed buying some food before any chance word of my flight from ...

— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... proper and the raising of crops which would directly support the family. There was nothing dispiriting in the view of the country on this first day's ride, and though a winter landscape can hardly be exhilarating when it is leafless and bare, gray, and a little sombre in color, we found ourselves under no stress of sympathy with misfortune or want, as is so often the case with ...

— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox

... high, narrow, solid streets, dominated by a sombre Spanish cathedral, upon the side of the acropolis of the antique Agrigentum. I can see from my windows, half-way on the hillside towards the sea, the white range of temples partially destroyed. The ruins alone have some aspect ...

— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France

... the foot of the scaffold brought tears of pride to her eyes. In the first row of the crowd that quietly and respectfully filled the place, ladies in sombre dresses were grouped as close as possible to the scaffold, as if to take a voluntary part in the punishment of the old Chouanne; and during the six hours that the exhibition lasted the ladies of highest rank and most ...

— The House of the Combrays • G. le Notre

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