Carole lombard


Carole (Jane Alice Peters) 1909?–42, U.S. film actress.
Peter (Petrus Lombardus) c1100–64? Italian theologian: bishop of Paris 1159–64?.
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
Contemporary Examples

And then there is carole lombard, ravishing, sexy, happy, and glorious in her gowns.
The Star-Crossed Hamlet David Thomson October 9, 2008

David O. Russell: I immediately think of carole lombard with [Lawrence].
‘American Hustle’ Cast On Hairdos, the Jennifer Lawrence & Amy Adams Kiss, and More Marlow Stern December 8, 2013

noun
a native or inhabitant of Lombardy
Also called Langobard. a member of an ancient Germanic people who settled in N Italy after 568 ad
adjective
of or relating to Lombardy or the Lombards
noun
Peter. ?1100–?60, Italian theologian, noted for his Sententiarum libri quatuor
n.

from Late Latin Langobardus, proper name of a Germanic people who conquered Italy 6c. and settled in the northern region that became known as Lombardy, from Proto-Germanic Langgobardoz, often said to mean literally “Long-beards,” but perhaps rather from *lang- “tall, long” + the proper name of the people (Latin Bardi). Their name in Old English was Langbeardas (plural), but also Heaðobeardan, from heaðo “war.”

In Middle English the word meant “banker, money-changer, pawnbroker” (late 14c.), from Old French Lombart “Lombard,” also “money-changer; usurer; coward,” from Italian Lombardo (from Medieval Latin Lombardus).

Lombards in Middle Ages were notable throughout Western Europe as bankers and money-lenders, also pawn-brokers; they established themselves in France from 13c., especially in Montpellier and Cahors, and London’s Lombard Street (c.1200) originally was the site of the houses of Lombard bankers. French also gave the word in this sense to Middle Dutch and Low German. Lombardy poplar, originally from Italy but planted in North American colonies as an ornamental tree, is attested from 1766.

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