Meaning of Kimry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A town in Russia located at the confluence of the Volga and Kimrka rivers.
2. Archaic form of Cymry.
   alt-of, archaic, uncountable
3. An ancient ethnic group originally from the area around the Sea of Azov, who invaded much of what is now Europe, and intermingled with the ancient Gauls.
   uncountable

Examples

“The village of Kimry is, as has already been stated, celebrated for its boots; it is also the market for the sale of goods from the extensive region where all kinds of boots and shoes are made.”

“I lived in the town of Kimry in Tver province.”

“Continuing on foot, he reached Kimry, a little city on the Volga a hundred miles north of Moscow, from which convoys of wheat were shipped.”

“Thus, where simple labor-intensive procedures are few (as in Kimry and Rostov), the technological chain has a larger share of operations requiring high skills and several areas of expertise.”

“The Kimry pronounced their name Kumry, which strictly accords with Khumry, the name by which the Assyrians designated the country of Samaria. The Welch and ancient Bretons were Kimry.”

“They are the last remnant of the Kimmerioi of Homer, and of the Kimry (Cimbri) of Germany.”

“The Kimry, from the Palus Moeotis, entered the north-eastern portion of Gaul, and expelled from their territory many of the tribes who werre settled there; these, uniting in large hordes, precipitated themselves upon Italy.”

“The territory situated to the east of that limit belonged to the race of the Kimry: it was in time divided into two portions by the line of the Seine and the Marne, the one northern and the other southern.”

“By an unfortunate error, the original skulls and both sets of casts have been erroneously labelled "Type Kimry, homme," and "Type Gall, femme;" though the male skull is, in truth, an example of the brachycephalous Type Gall, and the female skull of the ovoid Type Kimri, of W. F. Edwards.”

“The ancient inhabitants of Belgic Gaul, the Kimry of Thierry, were also a tall, blue-eyed and fair-haired people.”

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