[rip-yoo-air-ee-uh
n] 
| 1. | designating or pertaining to a group of Franks who lived along the Rhine in the neighborhood of Cologne during the 4th century or the code of laws observed by them. |
| 2. | a Ripuarian Frank. |
| Rip·u·ar·i·an (rĭp'yōō-âr'ē-ən) adj. Of, relating to, or being a group of Franks who settled along the Rhine, near Cologne, in the fourth century A.D. n. A Ripuarian Frank. [From Medieval Latin Ripuārius.] |