combe

Etymology

From Middle English coumbe, cumbe, from Old English cumb, from Proto-Brythonic (compare Welsh cwm), from Proto-Celtic *kumbā. Doublet of cwm.

noun

  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river
    its long, latticed window … looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe. 1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts
  2. A cirque.

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