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The word refers to the typical decoration in the pottery of a culture of which little is known otherwise. The decoration looks as if it had been imprinted with a comb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
comb ceramic
Today it means: Of or pertaining to a hunter-gatherer culture that existed in northeastern Europe from around 4200 BC to around 2000 BC. Full definition →