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drome

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Word definitions for drome in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drome \Drome\ (dr[=o]m), n. [F., fr. Gr. droma`s running. See Dromedary .] (Zo["o]l.) The crab plover ( Dromas ardeola ), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Drôme (; Droma in Occitan , Drôma in Arpitan ) is a department in southeastern France named after the Drôme River .

Usage examples of drome.

At that moment Henry Drome broke away from his conversation and came over to the three Jamisson men.

As they jogged down the glen Henry Drome engaged Lizzie in conversation.

The memory of the huge dead face of the drome was trying to come back into her mind, but fury gave it no space.

After all, the drome was making her dream, but she was doing the dreaming.

The drome was lurching towards her, podgy white fingers grasping the air.

She saw a drome in the distance ahead of her, standing half-hidden behind a tree.

It looks as though a drome can get lost in its own dream, she thought.

The meet was set for the Drome at 2300, but I rode the tube three stops past the closest platform and walked back.

The Drome is a single narrow space with a bar down one side and tables along the other, thick with pimps and handlers and an arcane array of dealers.

The police would be boring the Drome regulars with questions about Ralfi.

But it was always the new ones to the drome that made the advances, for it had got around that I was unmarried and had a child, and in some perverse way this seemed to give me a form of protection, at least in the daylight.

In the centre of the square formed by the dromes the air was full of mist.

The hooftracks, and the tracks of Roland, led down past the tame dromes and into the cloud.

But she could make out three more dromes now, their big round soggy faces peering at her around tree trunks.

There were some of the people from the summer pictures, but there were also dromes and the headless horseman and the Bumble-Bee women.