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- proper noun a
Germanic tribe
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Examples
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Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci, is playing a deadly game.
Give Me Back My Legions! by Harry Turtledove: Book summary 2010
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Germanicus tried to put a wedge into that alliance by taking up one tribe after the other while Caecina kept the Cherusci from coming to their aid, but that took place over 3 summers and I'm not sure if not the Marsi and Chatti had recovered well enough to gather again into something like a fighting force.
Early medieval armies: numbers Carla 2010
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The same way fe. the Cherusci, Chatti, Bructeri and Hermunduri had been Germanic tribes in the 1st and 2nd centuries.
Attacotti Carla 2009
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A vast collection of Germanic peoples (the Cimbri, the Teutones and the Cherusci/Marcomanni/Tigurini) had migrated to Gaul (modern France) and inflicted several disastrous defeats upon Rome's armies, led by aristocratic incompetents who refused to cooperate with men they considered beneath them.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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They are the Cimbri, the Teutones, the Marcomanni, the Cherusci, and the Tigurini.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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In some way, I thought, my German sons would then have the faintest whiff of Rome under their short straight Cherusci noses.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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Nor are the winters so very hard, it seems — at least as close to Oceanus Atlanticus as the Cimbri, the Teutones, and the Cherusci were.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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So I took Hermana and the boys to the Cherusci of Germania.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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In the eighth year they were joined by a group of real Germans, the Cherusci, who came down from their lands around the Visurgis River, and in the ninth year by a people of Helvetia called the Tigurini, who seem to have lived to the east of Lake Lemanna, and are definitely Celts.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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The Cherusci actually come from a part of Germania not so very far from the lands of the Atuatuci, and claim the Atuatuci are their kinsmen.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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