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  • noun A type of house sprite from Slavic mythology

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From Russian домовой (domovój)

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Examples

  • 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 2003

  • 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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