Definition of "sombre" [sombre]

• Chiefly British Variant of somber. (adjective)

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• "For his picture does remain sombre, since for him the nature of man is wounded, if not corrupted."
• "As we reached the windmill, as though in sombre greeting, the floating mists on the near horizon seemed to part, and there rose from them a dark, jagged tower, one side of it torn away."
• "Under the working of these thoughts, Mr. Carleton sometimes forgot to talk to his little charge, and would walk for a length of way by her side, wrapped up in sombre musings."