Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A member of any of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples of central Asia who invaded western Asia and eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.
- n. Variant of Tatar.
- n. A person regarded as ferocious or violent.
- idiom catch a Tartar To grapple with an unexpectedly formidable opponent.
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- proper n. Alternative spelling of Tatar.
- proper n. A member of the various tribes and their descendants of Tartary, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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Hence some would derive the word Tartar, [Illustration] "Tartar," after the Hebrew manner.
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Protected by a moat and a wall wide enough to accommodate a man on horseback, the Imperial City was only a part of what was called the Tartar City, the northern two thirds of Peking; in the Tartar City, the houses were painted gray and other dull colors so as not to outshine the yellows, reds, and purples of the Forbidden and Imperial Cities.
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[12] The name Tartar (more correctly, Tatar) was originally applied to both Mongol and Turkish tribes that entered Russia.
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Vinous Liquor, the fermented Juice of Grapes is partly turned into liquid Dregs or Leeze, and partly into that crust or dry feculancy that is commonly called Tartar; and this Tartar may by the Fire be easily divided into five differing substances; four of which are not
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Most of my exposure to the word Tartar is from my Russian wife's family.
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It came to light in the 1950s, bound together with a slender and then otherwise unknown tract dating to about 1440, entitled the Tartar Relation.
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Captain ***, who had been described as a Tartar and martinet, received me with much affability, and seemed charmed when I told him that I conversed fluently not only in French but in English.
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Tartars, I admit -- but when you remember that a Tartar is a person who owns no master, rides like a jockey, and drinks as much as he pleases with impunity, the imputation is not serious.
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If in the nature of things the Tartar is a Mahometan, the Pole a Roman Catholic, and the German a Protestant, it is equally in the nature of things that the Russian should be a member of the Orthodox
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This was called Tartar, from the wailings the sentence produced among his relatives.
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