Kalmuck

American  

[kal-muhk, kal-muhk] / ˈkæl mʌk, kælˈmʌk /

Or Kalmuk

noun

1. 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.

2. 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.

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Kalmuck British  

/ ˈkælmʌk, ˈkælmɪk /

noun

1. a member of a Mongoloid people of Buddhist tradition, who migrated from W China in the 17th century

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Mongolic branch of the Altaic family

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Example Sentences

Encumbered as he was with his women, children, and entire movable possessions, obliged to forage and hunt on the way, and avoiding pursuers in rear as well as forces coming to meet him in front, fighting frequent and some of the time successful battles,—the Nez Percé chieftain exhibited qualities of leadership and resources of mind and body which offer materials for a historical romance equal to De Quincey’s Flight of the Kalmuck Tartars.

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This man was a Kalmuck, and I must tell something of his history.

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Forty years before the date of my story, M. Zubin had bought two Kalmuck boys.

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He seemed an incarnation of sun and sea and wholesome virility, and, as the thought of the rather heavy Kalmuck face of Lord Harlow, and staid aspect suitable to his forty years, she almost wondered whether, in her estimate made this morning, she had allowed enough for personal charm.

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But the Grimms had some Kalmuck stories.**

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