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A member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century
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lombard
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Lombard is a Polish pop-rock band founded in 1981. Lombard has recorded many albums with well-known and well-liked hits, held thousands of concerts gathering masses of audience. The invariable leader of Lombard is Grzegorz Stróżniak , the composer of all ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Late Latin Langobardus , proper name of a Germanic people who conquered Italy 6c. and settled in the northern region that became known as Lombardy , from Proto-Germanic Langgobardoz , often said to mean literally "Long-beards," but perhaps rather from ...
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As the successor of the Lombards, the chagan asserted his claim to the important city of Sirmium, the ancient bulwark of the Illyrian provinces.
Romilda was condemned to the embraces of twelve Avars, and the third day the Lombard princess was impaled in the sight of the camp, while the chagan observed with a cruel smile, that such a husband was the fit recompense of her lewdness and perfidy.
They affected to deride the palaces, the banquets, the polished manner of the Italians, who in the estimate of the Greeks themselves had degenerated from the liberty and valor of the ancient Lombards.
Cornhill and Lombard Street flashed back upon him for a second, then dived away and hid their faces for ever, as he passed the low grey wall beside the church where first he had seen the lame boy hobbling, and had realised that the whole world suffered.
To certain Lombards ready in their hond The sum of gold, and got of them his bond, And home he went, merry as a popinjay.
I sent a letter to Sir Robert Thaneth to Rushmer by Ypswych by the wagonman who is at ynn at the George in Lombard Streete.
He recalled the late 1950S when Roland Lombard, a veterinarian and musher from Massachusetts, stunned the racing community by becoming the first man from outside to win a major Alaskan race.
Lombard became: the key to all these incredible events was to be found in the polyhedral cylinder on which they had bestowed so fitting a nickname.
Adoo demanded, while Lombard privately wondered why he had been so impressed, as a mere ungraduate student, by the idea of acceptance into the fraternity.
Lombard checked his watch, made a mental adjustment of time-zones, and discovered that at precisely this moment ten days earlier he had been at the fraternity building on the edge of the Afrasian U.
Bryar, another top challenger from the lower forty-eight, and Lombard ran teams of registered Siberian Huskies against the Alaskan village dogs.
Soon Bedaux acquired the additional adornment of a socially impeccable spouse in the person of Fern Lombard, the daughter of a Michigan tycoon.
Corsicans who formed the papal bodyguard, German typographers, French perfumers and glovemakers, Teutonic bakers, Spanish booksellers, Lombard carpenters from the Campo Marzio, Dalmatian boatbuilders, Greek copyists, Portuguese trunkmakers from the Via dei Baullari, goldsmiths from beside San Giorgio.
Cornhill and Lombard Street flashed back upon him for a second, then dived away and hid their faces for ever, as he passed the low grey wall beside the church where first he had seen the lame boy hobbling, and had realised that the whole world suffered.
Vandals, Huns, Gepidae, Lombards, Heruli all came and went without leaving any notable traces.