Noun: ombre
| Singular | ombre |
| Plural | ombres |
Sample Sentences
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Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites, / Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights, / At Ombre singly to decide their doom / And swells her breast with conquests yet to com [1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto:]
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When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three. [1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like ombre
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human. See: French Nouns '
hombre', Spanish Nouns '
hombre', Latin Nouns '
homō'.