Crossword clues for umbrian
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, noun and adjective, in reference to Umbria, ancient region of central Italy, or its people or the Italic language they spoke.
Usage examples of "umbrian".
This was the result of Paduan methods meeting at Bologna with Umbrian sentiment.
The Etruscans and Umbrians agreed to make war against Rome, and called in the assistance of the Senonian Gauls.
It had been remarkable for intense sentiment, and just what effect this sentiment of the old Siennese school had upon the painters of the neighboring Umbrian school of the early fifteenth century is a matter of speculation with historians.
UMBRIAN AND PERUGIAN SCHOOLS: At the beginning of the fifteenth century the old Siennese school founded by Duccio and the Lorenzetti was in a state of decline.
Tine, if dusty and travel-stained, clothing and effects of their charges with unconcealed avarice, all the while fingering the well-honed blades of their battle-axes or hefting the short-hafted weapons where they lay, ready to hand, across their saddle pommels, sniggering and exchanging glances and terse comments in Umbrian or some such uncultured dialect.
The Etrurians and Umbrians came, luckily so truculent and overbearing that they irritated men they might otherwise have wooed, and were dispatched home again with a flea in the ear and scant sympathy from anyone.