Comines

or Com·mines

[ kaw-meen ]

noun

1. Phi·lippe de [fee-, leep, d, uh], 1445?–1511?, French historian and diplomat.

Comines

/ kɔmin /

noun

1. CominesPhilippe de?1447?1511MFrenchPOLITICS: diplomatHISTORY: historian Philippe de (filip də). ?1447–?1511, French diplomat and historian, noted for his Mémoires (1489–98)

Example Sentences

Christophe Bourgois, 29, a builder, said it was worth his while to drive to the French border town of Halluin from his Belgian home town of Comines.

From Reuters

One place where residents have no choice but to put those differences to one side is Comines, a town that sits right on the Franco-Belgian border, split by the river Lys.

From Reuters

Reached by phone, a bar owner in French Comines said the atmosphere in the town was convivial ahead of the game.

From Reuters

At another cafe in Comines, La Bascule, barman Bertrand Obert is happy to back both horses: "What's good about this is that one team or the other will get into the final."

From BBC

Take the two sister towns of Comines, split in two by accident of history and by a river.

From BBC