Tartary
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tartary
1350–1400; Middle English Tartarye < Middle French Tartarie < Medieval Latin Tartaria. See tartar, -y 3
Example Sentences
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When a similar coup takes place in nearby Crim Tartary, little Princess Rosalba flees into the forest, where she is raised by lions.
From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2018
As shaggy as the mythical Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, willow buds emerge covered in dense woolly fur, as soft as a kitten’s paws.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2018
Lee connected the myth of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary to the Indian cotton-pod, pointing to yet another moniker, ‘the Scythian Lamb’.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2013
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, bearing resemblance to a woolly fern.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2013
The yak, or Tartary ox, seems to thrive in France, and success has attended the recent efforts to introduce the South American alpaca into Europe.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
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