sb. and a. [ad. L. Longobard-ī (see LOMBARD).] = LOMBARD.

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1598.  Grenewey, Tacitus’ Ann., II. x. (1622), 48. The Semnones and the Longobards tooke part.

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1644.  Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 155. The barbarous Goths and Longobards.

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1707.  J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., III. iii. 274. The Laws of the Longobards.

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1839.  Penny Cycl., XIV. 147. Luitprandus … the most illustrious of the Longobard kings.

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1902.  Union Mag., May, 214/2. There is no single trace of the real Gothic or Longobard style.

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  So Longobardian sb., Lombard; Longobardic a., Lombardic.

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1846.  Grote, Greece, II. I. xx. 113, note. The Longobardic law is the most copious of all the barbaric codes in its provisions respecting marriage.

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1877.  W. Jones, Finger-ring, 85. A large gold thumb-ring … on which is engraved the letter E of Longobardic form.

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1889.  R. B. Anderson, trans. Rydberg’s Teut. Mythol., 67. From that day the Vinnillians were called Longobardians—that is to say long-beards.

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