sb. and a. [ad. L. Longobard-ī (see LOMBARD).] = LOMBARD.
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus Ann., II. x. (1622), 48. The Semnones and the Longobards tooke part.
1644. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 155. The barbarous Goths and Longobards.
1707. J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., III. iii. 274. The Laws of the Longobards.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIV. 147. Luitprandus the most illustrious of the Longobard kings.
1902. Union Mag., May, 214/2. There is no single trace of the real Gothic or Longobard style.
So Longobardian sb., Lombard; Longobardic a., Lombardic.
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.
1877. W. Jones, Finger-ring, 85. A large gold thumb-ring on which is engraved the letter E of Longobardic form.
1889. R. B. Anderson, trans. Rydbergs Teut. Mythol., 67. From that day the Vinnillians were called Longobardiansthat is to say long-beards.