cossack

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To the gipsy and the cossack, and all people mainly dependent on the horse, to be mounted is to signify participation in affairs.

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  1. One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

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  1. 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

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  • Ivan sang in Russian for 4 or 5 minutes (across 4.5 octaves), standing alone on stage, dressed like a cossack. —  townx - Comments
  • THE London Philarmonic Skiffle Orchestra will be performing a variety of music, including Celtic, cajun, cossack and country blues, to name but a few, in the community centre tonight from 8pm. —  HX News and Sport
  • Ukraine is widely known for its lively cossack-style dancing ( "hopak") and elaborately batiked easter eggs ( "pysanky") —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Yet Ukrainian nationalists, in their attempts to try to create some kind of national identity, try to cling onto their far-distant cossack history and claim that they are theirs, when in fact the only cossacks that ever existed on the territory of what is now present-day Ukraine was the Zaporozhti, which were disbanded died 300 years ago, while Russia had many different cossack hosts from the Don, Terek, Kuban, Urals, Ussuri, etc cossacks. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • The journey over the desert stretch from Prieska to Upington was full of alarms; during the night the train halted in the lonely veld owing to a washaway, and we stood to arms, throwing out cossack-posts around the train wherein the Commander-in-Chief slept. —  With Botha in the Field
 

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