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UK
/kˈɒsæk/
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[ US /ˈkɔsək/ ]
[ US /ˈkɔsək/ ]
NOUN
- a member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia
How To Use Cossack In A Sentence
- He's a Cossack, who rose to command a hussar regiment in the army, won the Tsar's special favour, and retired here, away from his own tribal land. The Sky Writer
- We diversified the reading curriculum to make it more great-booksy - specifically, the great works of Cossack literature. Undefined
- But Solomon sat tight in his rain barrel, and after the cossacks had left empty-handed, he made his escape.
- Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame Europe After 8:15
- It's a bit too - "Her words broke off as she saw Alex standing by the sink in his Cossack costume. KISS AN ANGEL
- The original gauchos were an equestrian ethnic group similar to North American cowboys and Ukrainian Cossacks.
- On their side, the Cossacks rendered honors to the waywodes of Ivan as well as to all the strelitz. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
- Eventually Peter recognized that in order to consolidate and modernize Russia's political and economic power it was necessary to do away with the hetmanate and Ukrainian and Cossack aspirations to autonomy. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- He was wearing a kalpak -- the head-gear of the cossack, which would make a high priest look outlawed, and a shaggy goat-skin coat that had seen more than one campaign. The Eye of Zeitoon
- They rode up to the thirty-fifth floor, rising past the bank offices on the lower floors to the executive offices of Cossack Holdings. MURDER SONG