Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a branch of the Mongolian family of peoples, divided into four tribes, and dwelling in the Chinese empire, Western Siberia, and southeastern Russia. They are nomads, adherents of a form of Buddhism, and number over 200,000.
- noun The language spoken by the Kalmucks.
- noun [lowercase] A kind of rough cloth having a hairy nap.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ethnol.) See
calmucks . - noun A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin.
- noun A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obsolete spelling of
Kalmyk . - noun Obsolete spelling of
Kalmyk . - proper noun Obsolete spelling of
Kalmyk .
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Examples
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Joulaï, a baptized Kalmuck, revealed to the Commandant something very serious.
The Daughter of the Commandant Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 1818
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This man, of Kalmuck extraction, and hideous, even savage appearance, but the kindest-hearted creature and by no means a fool, was passionately devoted to Pasinkov, and had been his servant for ten years.
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Kirillovna faintly screwed up her black Kalmuck eyes.
The Inn 2006
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Kalmuck cap; the flesh part was of a heavenly pink, the cap, the moustache, the eyebrows were of a bluish gray; to see this with its childish exactitude of design and colour, and hugeness of scale — it covered at least 25 degrees — held me spellbound.
Vailima Letters 2005
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Germans and of the Molokani, and a long-sighted Kalmuck could even see the town and the railway-station.
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Kalmuck, Samoid, Kamtschatkan, and Aleutian hordes, and one may understand that the unity of so vast a state must be difficult to maintain, and that it could only be the work of time, aided by the wisdom of many successive rulers.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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Then, fool, you ought to have had a slipper smacked across that Kalmuck snout of yours.
Through Russia 2003
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She thought their faces showed an unpleasing mixture of Dutch and 'Kalmuck,' or Mongol, and 'moreover they look heavy, dull and frightened and are not at all prepossessing.
Royal Comedy Buruma, Ian 1997
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The dreadful tale of the Kalmuck Tartars, in 1770, fleeing from their enemies, the Russians, over the desolate steppes of Asia in mid-winter; starting out six hundred thousand strong, men, women, and children, with their flocks and herds, and reaching the confines of
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams
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Those of Kabarda are among the most famed; and excellent cavalry horses are got by Pratof's stallions out of the Tartar and Kalmuck mares.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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