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Dukhobor

American  
[doo-kuh-bawr] / ˈdu kəˌbɔr /

noun

plural

Dukhobors, Dukhobortsy

  1. Doukhobor.

Dukhobor British  
/ ˈduːkəʊˌbɔː /

plural noun

  1. a variant spelling of Doukhobor

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He was impressed by the semi-Communistic "brotherly organization" of the Dukhobor sect.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over this persecution Tolstoy, Quakers, Christian Socialists, idealists everywhere seethed, then arranged a Dukhobor migration to the untilled Canadian prairies in 1899.

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