Glaber

[ glah-ber; French gla-ber ]

noun

1. Ra·oul [r, ah-, ool], or Ru·dolphe [r, oo-, dawlf], c990–c1050, French ecclesiastic and chronicler.

Example Sentences

The short-sighted creatures spend their lives in subterranean colonies in the service of a single breeding queen — H. glaber is one of only two 'eusocial' mammals ever discovered.

From Scientific American

After John, who survived his re-establishment but a short time, his nephew was elected pope, and took the name of Benedict IX. when he, according to Glaber,138 was but ten years of age.

From Project Gutenberg

Glaber,135 a contemporary historian, after having related this coronation, says, that it appears very reasonable, and a thing well established, that no prince could take the title of emperor, ‘save he whom the pope shall have chosen and clothed with the insignia of this dignity:’ words which seem much less to express in this place the sentiment of an individual than an opinion generally established in his time.

From Project Gutenberg

Everyone who cares for Heterocephalus glaber has her special formula; Rochelle Buffenstein's happens to taste like cream of wheat.

From Slate

When bald-pated Clodius Glaber's army penned the rebels up in the crater of Vesuvius, Spartacus lowered his men by ropes over the sheer rock face of the mountain's far side, then wiped out the Roman camp in a night attack.

From Time Magazine Archive