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Definition of Fibulae
1. fibula [n] - See also: fibula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fibulae
Literary usage of Fibulae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1853)
"One of the pair of bronze fibulae found on the youthful skeleton No. ... One of
a pair of bronze circular fibulae, ornamented with indentations formed with ..."
2. Grave-mounds and Their Contents: A Manual of Archaeology, as Exemplified in by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (1870)
"Anglo-Saxon Period—fibulae —Enamelled circular fibulae—Gold fibulae—Pendant
Cross—Cruciform fibulae—Penannular fibulae—Irish and English examples—Pendant ..."
3. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1903)
"Probably the least rare of these fibulae are those which bear the maker's ...
The practice of inscribing fibulae with makers' names was probably not very ..."
4. The Arts in Early England by Gerard Baldwin Brown (1915)
"Under the head of objects of personal adornment the first place is taken by the
fibulae. Earlier finds of garnet-set disc brooches and long fibulae ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Art by Ernest Albert Parkyn (1915)
"fibulae. The fibula or brooch affords an interesting study in relation to the
... In other words, fibulae are to the archaeologist what coins are to the ..."
6. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1811)
"... it includes bear no resemblance to fibulae, but rather to clothes'-buttons,
to which the word is now made to apply. ..."
7. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1903)
"T) Y the kindness of Mr. WB Brunskill of Windermere, -UI exhibit to the Society
a small collection of bronze fibulae and other ..."
8. An Archæological Index to Remains of Antiquity of the Celtic, Romano-British by John Yonge Akerman (1847)
"IT will be remarked, that many of the relics discovered in Anglo-Saxon Tumuli,
differ materially from each other;—that there are fibulae which though ..."
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