douma
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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When Peter hastened home from Vienna he decided that his generals and his douma had been too lenient.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by Rudd, John
By trickery and knavery, Boris Godounof was elected czar by the douma or council of nobles, a body presided over by his friend the Patriarch, and containing many of his partisans.
From The Story of Russia by Bergen, R. Van
The douma of the Little Russians corresponds to the bîlina of the Great Russians.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther
He secured from the douma an order by which three thousand families were moved to that port, and streltsi were dispatched to garrison it.
From The Story of Russia by Bergen, R. Van
Peculiar to them is the douma, a kind of narrative poem, in which the metre is generally very irregular; but a sort of rhythm is preserved by the recurrence of accentuated syllables.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther
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