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plural combes
A valley, often wooded and often with no river quotations examples
its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.
1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts
gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
1805, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Madoc, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A[rchibald] Constable and Co, […], by James Ballantyne, […]
You wake up next morning on what looks like Salisbury Plain, only here you climb up the side of every combe, round the end and out the other side.
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 264-265
A cirque. examples