Kalmuck
Americannoun
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a member of any of a group of Buddhistic Mongol tribes of a region extending from western China to the valley of the lower Volga River.
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a Mongolian language used by the part of the Kalmuck people that was formerly powerful in northwest China, specifically in Dzungaria, and now live northwest of the Caspian Sea.
noun
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a member of a Mongoloid people of Buddhist tradition, who migrated from W China in the 17th century
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the language of this people, belonging to the Mongolic branch of the Altaic family
Example Sentences
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The Kalmuck peasant, who yesterday guided a primitive plough hitched to a camel, is picked up as by zhar ptitsa, the legendary firebird, and deposited for some revolutionary anniversary on this field.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the Kalmuck steppes, below Stalingrad, the correspondents saw hundreds of ruined German tanks, munitions dumps captured intact, many abandoned guns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether miming a cavalry charge or approximating the flight of eagles in a Kalmuck ceremony, the company attacks each number with ramrod backs and bright faces, precise and impeccable.
From Time Magazine Archive
She learned horsemanship from Kalmuck tribesmen and was a superb rough-and-tumble rider.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to the official documents communicated to me, the Kalmuck population does not appear to exceed 15,000 families.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
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