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▪ I. comble, n. Her.
[a. F. comble in same sense:—L. cumulus heap, pile, heap above the full measure, crown.]
†1. Obs. The diminutive of the chief of the escutcheon, occupying one fourth of its depth towards its lower portion; the fillet.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. lxxvii. 99 Sir Wyllyam Duglas..bare azure, a comble syluer, thre starres goules. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 254. 1722 Nisbet Heraldry I. 72 The chief can only be parted per fess, when three parts are above and one below—and this is called a Combel or Fillet—viz. the diminutive of a chief.
2. The ‘crown’ or culmination. [A gallicism.]
1832S. Austin tr. Pückler-Muskau's Tour Germany IV. 379 ‘Good-nature’ is laughed at and despised as the ‘comble’ of vulgarity. 1884G. M. Hopkins Let. 3 Aug. (1935) 195 That book could be the greatest boon to me,.. And if you were to complete ‘Wildair’, that would be the comble. 1903Falkner Nebuly Coat viii, He added the comble to all his graces and courtesies by shaking her hand. 1908Daily Chron. 1 May 4/7 The disgust of those who believe that there is an art of acting which is marred..by such..interruptions reaches its comble. 1958B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties xi. 137 Fiercer and fiercer waxed the controversy... The comble came in August 1925.
▪ II. † comble, v. Obs. rare.
[a. F. comble-r:—L. cumulā-re to overload, f. cumulus heap, piled up mass.]
trans. To load, overload.
1672St. Michel Let. 14 Aug., in Pepys' Corr., You dayly and howerly soe comble me with, not only expressions, but allsoe deeds, of your worthyness and goodness.
▪ III. comble
var. of cumble n. and v. |