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Cimbrian

Cimbrian \Cim"bri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the Cimbri. -- n. One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.

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cimbrian

n. (context countable English) A member of a Germanic people who live in Bavaria and parts of North-East Italy. n. (context uncountable English) The Bavarian Germanic language of these people, which is a variety of German.

Usage examples of "cimbrian".

Thus the Tauric Chersonnese, the Thracian Chersonnese, the Cimbrian Chersonnese, etc.

The original homeland of the Cimbri and the Teutones is a long, wide peninsula lying to the north of Germania, vaguely described by some of the Greek geographers, who called it the Cimbrian Chersonnese.

Alps back into Long-haired Gaul very soon, and next year will be home again in the Cimbrian Chersonnese.

Thus the Tauric Chersonnese, the Cimbrian Chersonnese, the Thracian Chersonnese, the Cnidan Chersonnese, et cetera.

After some consultation they resolved to obey it, and sent a Cimbrian slave to carry out their orders.

He caused the statues of Marius and the Cimbrian trophies, which had been all destroyed by Sulla, to be privately restored and placed at night in the Capitol.

We have only the notorious disaster of Marius and his harangue to the Cimbrian commanded to kill him, or the august injunction of a mother to the Lion of Florence, in historic proof of instances of such lightning flashes of mind.

The guests, as the Cimbrian insisted on calling them, were led into an outsize room where Arkonsky bowed the knee to an idol with four faces, that Svantevit which the Danes had chopped up for firewood in the other history.

The Goths, the Cimbrians, the Vandals, and the Huns had each taken their turn hi humbling that mighty metropolis.