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- noun A type of
house sprite from Slavic mythology
Etymologies
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From Russian домовой (domovój)
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Examples
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So we stopped, and were all lying down together, and Avdushka had just begun to say, “I say, boys, suppose the domovoy were to come?”
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So we stopped, and were all lying down together, and Avdushka had just begun to say, "I say, boys, suppose the domovoy were to come?"
A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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