Word Frequency
Pict (pɪkt
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Definitions
noun
- a member of any of the peoples who lived in Britain north of the Forth and Clyde in the first to the fourth centuries ad: later applied chiefly to the inhabitants of NE Scotland. Throughout Roman times the Picts carried out border raids
Word Origin
Old English Peohtas; later forms from Late Latin Pictī painted men, from pingere to paintExample Sentences Including 'Pict'
However, Robbie the Pict has made his discovery, leaped on the enthusiastically by Messrs Monbiot, Crawford and Kennedy.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
The hare was started by the gentleman who calls himself Robbie the Pict.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
The naked girl, stained with gore like an ancient Pict with woad, kneeling by him, cradling his bleeding head.CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD (2001)
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