Kalmuck

or Kal·muk

[ kal-muhk, kal-muhk ]

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.

Kalmuck

/ ˈkælmɪk; ˈkælmʌk /

noun

1. -mucks-muck-myks-myk 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

Example Sentences

One need be a Kalmuck, says Madame de Hell, to be capable of enduring the trot of a camel.

From Project Gutenberg

The Kalmuck priest wears a leather coat, over the laps of which impend hundreds of strips, with leather tassels on the breast.

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His head looked very much like that of a Kalmuck woman, and he had a gentle, agreeable, and kindly nature.

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The features of the Mongolian-Kalmuck type here and there approach the Caucasian race.

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I took my box of medicines and my groaning, cursing, wounded Kalmuck to interpret for me.

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