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- noun Plural form of
Calmuck .
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Examples
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M.] 26 The country of the Turks, now of the Calmucks, is well described in the Genealogical History, p. 521 — 562.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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The articles of importation are principally European, several likewise come from Siberia, Bucharea, the Calmucks, and China.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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The articles of importation are principally European, several likewise come from Siberia, Bucharea, the Calmucks, and China.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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It is remarkable as showing the wide prevalence of this law, that among the natives of the British possessions in India, also in a considerable part of China, and among the Calmucks of Tartary, the best means of computation yet furnished us by travellers, yield similar results.
Hard Times 2002
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Calmucks, who fled into Djungaria, and were nearly destroyed on the road, by the Kirghiz.
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough
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They are the ear-mark of a roving, careless, selfish population, which thinks only of mill-privileges, and never of pleasant meadows, -- which has built the ugliest dwellings and the biggest hotels of any nation, save the Calmucks, over whom reigns the Czar.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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Tartars are divided into four different nations, namely, the Tartars properly so called, the Calmucks, and the Usbeck and Moguls.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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The ceremony of marriage among the Calmucks is performed on horseback.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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What might be called mixed or compound mutilations are practiced by the New Zealanders, East Africans, Kondes, Kukas, and Calmucks.
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I should have taken them for Calmucks or Samoieds, had it not been for their dresses and European finery.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891
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