Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not well come; having come at a wrong time.

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Examples

  • The steps came swiftly across the guard-room floor, soft, as of one lightly shod; and Garnache wondered was it the mother or the son, just as he wondered what this ill-come visitor might be seeking.

    Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912

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