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English
Etymology
From Middle English Lombardish, from Old English *Longbeardisc (“Lombardish”), equivalent to Lombard + -ish.
Adjective
Lombardish (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Lombards, a Germanic people who settled in Italy in the sixth century C.E., their language, customs, or culture.
1807, George Burnett, Specimens of English prose-writers:And also another scripture that men call the Lombardish law, deviseth thereof in divers cases; the which hereafter shall be declared by me unto thee.
- Like a Lombard.
2010, John Szwed, Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World:[...] Jazz became many things—frenetic, destructive, hysterical, decadent, venal, alcoholic, saccharine, Lombardish, vapid—it has enriched stuffed bellies; it has corrupted the innocent; [...]
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Lombardish
- The language of the Lombards, an extinct Germanic language known from fragmentary evidence; Lombardic.
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the language of the Lombards