sombrous

[ som-bruhs ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. somber.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sombrous¹

1720–30; < French sombre somber + -ous

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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