Kimry

English

Proper noun

Kimry

1. 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

Kimry (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Anagrams

• mirky