Ostrogoth
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Origin of Ostrogoth
1640–50; < Late Latin Ostrogothī, Austrogotī (plural) < Germanic, equivalent to *austro- eastwards ( Old Norse austr, Old Saxon, Old High German ōstar, Middle Dutch ooster, Old English ēast ( er ) ra; cf. east) + Goth
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Roman soldiers who had served in the East brought many of the steelmaking secrets of Damascus into the Rhineland, and in the 6th Century Theodoric the Ostrogoth pronounced Solingen's swords worthy of Vulcan's own forge.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same was the case with Odoacer's conqueror, the great Ostrogoth, Theodorich.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
Ostrogoth, os′trō-goth, n. an eastern Goth: one of the tribe of east Goths who established their power in Italy in 493, and were overthrown in 555.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
They rose with Goth and Ostrogoth to free themselves from the heavy yoke.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Probably, therefore, the great Ostrogoth many a time saw "the Divine mysteries" celebrated here by bishops and priests of the Arian communion.
From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas
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