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Difference Between Ombre and Sombre

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Ombre

A trick-taking card game, played by three players with 40 cards, that was popular in Europe during the 1600s and 1700s.

Sombre

Sombre is a 1998 French film directed by Philippe Grandrieux, starring Marc Barbé and Elina Löwensohn. The film was nominated for the Golden Leopard and won the C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention at the Locarno International Film Festival.

Ombre

A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.

Sombre

Dark or dull in colour or tone
The night skies were sombre and starless

Ombre

(archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa

Sombre

Having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness
He looked at her with a sombre expression
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Ombre

(colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark.

Sombre

Variant of somber.

Ombre

A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): - called also umbra, and umbrine.

Sombre

Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.

Sombre

Dull or dark in colour or brightness.

Sombre

Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
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Sombre

Grave; extremely serious.
A sombre situation

Sombre

(obsolete) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.

Sombre

To make sombre or dark; to make shady.

Sombre

Grave or even gloomy in character;
Solemn and mournful music
A suit of somber black
A somber mood

Sombre

Lacking brightness or color; dull;
Drab faded curtains
Sober Puritan gray
Children in somber brown clothes

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