Kimry
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Proper noun edit
Kimry
- A town in Russia located at the confluence of the Volga and Kimrka rivers.
- 1893, John Martin Crawford, The Industries of Russia, page 101:
- 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.
- 1998, Alexandra George, Escape from "Ward Six": Russia Facing Past and Present, page 168:
- I lived in the town of Kimry in Tver province.
- 2022, Christian Salmon, The Blumkin Project: A Biographical Novel, page 132:
- 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.
- 2022, Juri Plusnin, Russian Provincial Society: An Empirical Analysis, page 205:
- 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.
Noun edit
Kimry (uncountable)
- Archaic form of Cymry.
- 1887, S. F. Walker, The Ruins Revisited, and the World-story Retold, page 135:
- 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.
- 1917, John Harden Allen, Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright, page 291:
- They are the last remnant of the Kimmerioi of Homer, and of the Kimry (Cimbri) of Germany.
- 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.
- 1844 November 16, “Thierry's History of the Gauls”, in The Anglo American, volume 4, number 4, page 74:
- 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.
- 1845, Charles John Abraham, The unity of history; or, Outlines of lectures on ancient and modern history, page 101:
- 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.
- 1865, John Thurnam, “On the two principal forms of Ancient British and Gaulish Skulls”, in Memoirs read before the Anthropological Society of London, page 492:
- 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.
- 1866, Samuel Laing, Pre-historic Remains of Caithness, page 118:
- The ancient inhabitants of Belgic Gaul, the Kimry of Thierry, were also a tall, blue-eyed and fair-haired people.