Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ancient geography, pertaining or relating to the country called Liburnia, on the eastern coast of the Adriatic sea, southeast of Istria, answering to parts of modern Fiume, Croatia, and northern Dalmatia.
- noun In anc. hist., an inhabitant of Liburnia.
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He led us out of the wind and into one of the great military boathouses, where the skeleton of a liburnian, stripped for repair, sat on huge wooden rollers.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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