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  • noun uncountable A Kartvelian language spoken in parts of Georgia and Abkhazia
  • noun countable A person who speaks this language

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Examples

  • Boris Nicolaievsky has argued that the Mingrelian purge weakened Beria's position; and the doctors 'plot, with its implied criticism of the efficiency of the secret police, might well, if followed up, have eventually involved Beria himself.

    Twenty Letters to a Father 1969

  • He did not try to implicate Beria personally in either the Mingrelian conspiracy of 1951-1952 or the doctors 'plot of 1953.

    Twenty Letters to a Father 1969

  • (A month after Stalin's death, when Beria was Minister of the Interior, a number of both the Mingrelian "conspirators" and the doctors were rehabilitated.)

    Twenty Letters to a Father 1969

  • He did not try to implicate Beria personally in either the Mingrelian conspiracy of 1951-1952 or the doctors 'plot of 1953.

    Twenty Letters to a Father 1967

  • (A month after Stalin's death, when Beria was Minister of the Interior, a number of both the Mingrelian "conspirators" and the doctors were rehabilitated.)

    Twenty Letters to a Father 1967

  • Boris Nicolaievsky has argued that the Mingrelian purge weakened Beria's position; and the doctors 'plot, with its implied criticism of the efficiency of the secret police, might well, if followed up, have eventually involved Beria himself.

    Twenty Letters to a Father 1967

  • In a Mingrelian landscape we are struck at the aspect afforded by the numerous whitewashed cottages as they dot the well-wooded hills.

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

  • He was an aged Mingrelian, bald on his crown, but lank-haired, dreamy-eyed, stooping; he had a Robinson Crusoe type of countenance.

    A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

  • A look of pleased vanity floated over the face of my Mingrelian host.

    A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

  • Here is the Caucasia of our youthful dreams, and the mystic hills and vales whence Mingrelian princes issued forth to deeds of valor in old romantic tales.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

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