Cimbric
- a word derived from Cimbri.
Example Sentences
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The Cattegat is divided from the Baltic by the Danish islands, between the east coast of the Cimbric peninsula in the neighbourhood of the German frontier and south-western Sweden.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
Marius celebrated the success of the day in a magnificent triumph, and paraded, among his trophies, a Cimbric king of such a gigantic height, that, notwithstanding his humiliating position, everybody looked up to him.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
Shakespeare was of Welsh descent, but whether of Celtic or Cimbric stock it were difficult to determine.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
He says nothing about the inhabitants of these islands, but tells us more about the Jutish peninsula, or Cimbric Chersonese as he calls it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
We may be surprised to find the beginning of certain military instructions at Rome, referred to a time no earlier than that of the Cimbric war.
From An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Ferguson, Adam
