Cimbri
noun
a Germanic or Celtic people, supposed to have originated in Jutland, who invaded Gaul and northern Italy, and were destroyed by the Romans in 101 b.c.
Example Sentences
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The Baltic is connected with North Sea by the winding channel between the south of Scandinavia and the Cimbrian peninsula.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
There fell a second stain beside the first, Then it grew larger, and the Cimbrian chief Stared at the thick vague darkness, and saw naught.
From Poems by Victor Hugo
Before the Cimbrian war, the wolf, the horse, and the boar were also borne as ensigns, but Marius abolished these, and retained the eagle only, hence called emphatically "The Roman Bird."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
The keeper was a wizened little Welshman from the Chibut who spoke English with an extraordinary mixture of a Spanish intonation and a Cimbrian accent.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Harry Bates
Many thousands of them had broken out at the time of the Cimbrian invasion.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
